prosopometamorphopsia
Meaning
Noun
- A disorder of facial perception, in which the patient perceives people's faces as distorted, often with morbid affective features.
Origin
- First used in 1953 by British neurologist MacDonald Critchley, from Ancient Greek πρόσωπον ("face") + English metamorphopsia ("distorted vision").
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