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Inability to recognize sounds
Inability to recognize sounds is a clinical finding in which a person cannot recognize sounds that they likely previously knew. This can occur with strokes or other causes of brain damage.
Dr. Keegan Duchicela reviewed this
16 year experience in family medicine
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