Medical Term:
acheiria
Pronunciation: ă-kī′rē-ă
Definition:
- Congenital absence of one or both hands.
- Anesthesia in one or both hands with loss of the sense of possession of the hand or hands.
- A sensibility disorder in which the patient is unable to identify which side of the body has received a stimulus.
[G. a- priv. + cheir, hand]
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