Anaphia

Anaphia, also known as tactile anesthesia, is a medical symptom in which there is a total or partial absence of the sense of touch.^[1]

Anaphia is a common symptom of spinal cord injury and neuropathy.

References

↑ Charles Harley Cleaveland (1881). Pronouncing medical lexicon: containing the correct pronunciation and definition of terms used in medicine and the collateral sciences, with addenda ... Lindsay & Blakiston. pp. 20–. Retrieved 7 April 2012.

Symptoms and signs: skin and subcutaneous tissue (R20–R23, 782)

Disturbances of skin sensation	Hypoesthesia Paresthesia Formication Hyperesthesia Hypoalgesia Hyperalgesia

Circulation	Cyanosis Pallor/Livedo Livedo reticularis Flushing Petechia

Edema	Peripheral edema Anasarca

Other	Rash Desquamation Induration Diaphoresis Mass Neck mass

Skin	Asboe-Hansen sign Auspitz's sign Borsari's sign Braverman's sign Crowe sign Dennie–Morgan fold Darier's sign Fitzpatrick's sign Florid cutaneous papillomatosis Gottron's sign Hutchinson's sign Janeway lesion Kerr's sign Koebner's phenomenon Koplik's spots Leser-Trelat sign Nikolsky's sign Pastia's sign Russell's sign Wickham striae Wolf's isotopic response

Nails	Aldrich-Mees' lines Beau's lines Muehrcke's lines Terry's nails

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Anaphia

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