acalculia
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EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From a- (negative prefix) + Latin calculare (“to calculate”) + -ia (“pathological condition”).
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NounEdit
acalculia (uncountable)
- (pathology) The condition of lacking basic mathematical skills caused by a brain injury, or more specifically an injury to the parietal lobe. [First attested in the early 20th century.][1]
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TranslationsEdit
condition of lacking basic mathematical skills
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ReferencesEdit
- ^ Brown, Lesley, ed. The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary. 5th. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.