Bálint's syndrome

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A triad of severe neuropsychological impairments: simultanagnosia, oculomotor apraxia, and optic ataxia.

Word forms

Bálint's syndrome

Etymology

Named in 1909 for the Austro-Hungarian neurologist Rezső Bálint, who first identified it.

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