Usually means: Inability to recognize familiar faces.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. prosopagnosia: Merriam-Webster
  2. prosopagnosia: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. prosopagnosia: Collins English Dictionary
  4. prosopagnosia: Wordnik
  5. prosopagnosia: Wiktionary
  6. prosopagnosia: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. prosopagnosia: Dictionary.com
  8. Prosopagnosia: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. prosopagnosia: TheFreeDictionary.com
  10. prosopagnosia: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. prosopagnosia: Encyclopedia

Medicine (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. prosopagnosia: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Specific Diseases/Disorders (No longer online)
  6. Prosopagnosia: Visionary
  7. Disorder Index (No longer online)
  8. Terms in the field of Psychiatry and Neurology (No longer online)
  9. prosopagnosia: Medical dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Visionary, for the Study of Vision (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. prosopagnosia: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (prosopagnosia)

noun:  (neurology, pathology, psychology) A form of visual agnosia characterized by difficulty with face recognition despite intact low-level visual processing.

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