ANTON SYNDROMES
\ˈantɒn sˈɪndɹə͡ʊmz], \ˈantɒn sˈɪndɹəʊmz], \ˈa_n_t_ɒ_n s_ˈɪ_n_d_ɹ_əʊ_m_z]\
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Total loss of vision in all or part of the visual field due to bilateral OCCIPITAL LOBE (i.e., VISUAL CORTEX) damage or dysfunction. Anton syndrome is characterized by the psychic denial of true, organic cortical blindness. (Adams et al., Principles of Neurology, 6th ed, p460)
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- An English physician poet; born in Wiltshire about 1650; died 1729. Besides medical works, Scripture paraphrases, satirical verse, he wrote Popian couplets "Prince Arthur, a Heroic Poem"(1695), and voluminous religious epic, "The Creation"(1712), very successful much praised then, but not now read.