Anomia
the inability to name objects or to recognize the written or spoken names of objects.
Historical Examples
It has the same sort of calcified byssus as anomia, and also the hole to accommodate it in the smaller valve.
The Sea-beach at Ebb-tide Augusta Foote Arnold
The Terebratul are included in the genus anomia in the system of Linnus.
A Conchological Manual George Brettingham Sowerby
Note the barnacles, silver shells (anomia), etc., on the box and rope.
A Report upon the Mollusk Fisheries of Massachusetts Commissioners on Fisheries and Game
anomia has an irregularly rounded shell, with one convex and one flat or concave valve.
The Sea-beach at Ebb-tide Augusta Foote Arnold
The singular structures composing this genus were formerly taken for bivalves, and named anomia Tricuspidata, &c.
A Conchological Manual George Brettingham Sowerby
The bent form of the embryonic heart recalls the heart of spiders; it lies at first free, as in the mollusc anomia.
Form and Function E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell
This singular shell, known only in a fossil state, in the Palozic beds, is placed by Linnus in the genus anomia.
A Conchological Manual George Brettingham Sowerby
anomia a·no·mi·a (ə-nō’mē-ə)
n.
See nominal aphasia.
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