What is "asomatognosia"

n. a deficiency in the awareness of parts on one's own body.

Asomatognosia is characterized as loss of recognition or awareness of part of the body. The failure to acknowledge, for example, a limb may be expressed verbally or as a pattern of neglect. The limb may also be attributed to another person, a delusion known as somatoparaphrenia. However, they can be shown their limb and this error is temporarily corrected. All asomatognosic patients show hemispatial neglect.