Prosopometamorphopsia

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A disorder of facial perception, in which the patient perceives people's faces as distorted, often with morbid affective features. uncountable

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demon face syndromepmo

Etymology

First used in 1953 by British neurologist MacDonald Critchley, from Ancient Greek πρόσωπον (prósōpon, “face”) + English metamorphopsia (“distorted vision”).

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