Acheiria
1. Congenital absence of one or both hands.
2. Anaesthesia in, with loss of the sense of possession of, one or both hands; a condition sometimes noted in hysteria.
3. A form of dyscheiria in which the patient is unable to tell on which side of the body a stimulus has been applied.
Origin: g. A-priv. – cheir, hand
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