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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