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topognosis (medicine) and Antonomasia (health)


topognosis (medicine)


topognosis


Topognosia

Recognition of the location of a sensation; in the case of touch, topesthesia.

Origin: topo-+ G. Gnosis, knowledge


Antonomasia (health)


"1. The substitution of a title for a proper name, as in addressing a physician as ""Doctor"" or a nurse as ""Nurse."" 2. The substitution of a personal name for a noun to designate a member of a group or class, as in calling a geneticist a Mendelist (after Gregor Mendel, who discovered the principles of inheritance). The word antonomasia is Latin, from the Greek antonomazein, to name instead: anti-, instead of + onomazein, to name (from onoma, name). "