dysmegalopsia

dysmegalopsia
   The term dysmegalopsia comes from the Greek words dus (bad), megas (big), and opsis (seeing). It translates roughly as the diminished ability to appreciate the size of objects. Dysmega-lopsia is generally classified as a "sensory distortion or, more specifically, as a variant of " metamorphopsia. Dysmegalopsia may present either as an isolated symptom (i.e. as " macropsia or " micropsia), or as part of a cluster of symptoms called the "Alice in Wonderland syndrome. In or shortly before 1916, the British neurologist Samuel Alexander Kinnier Wilson (18781937) proposed the new term " dysmetropsia as a replacement for dysmegalopsia.
   References
   Wilson, S.A.K. (1916). Dysmetropsia and its pathogenesis. Transactions of the Ophthalmo-logical Society UK, 36, 412-444.

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