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Amnesia

Amnesia Meaning & Definition
Amnesia Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Amnesia?

[n] partial or total loss of memory; "he has a total blackout for events of the evening"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Amnesia: blackout | memory loss

Related Terms | Find terms related to Amnesia: agnosia | blackout | catalepsy | cataplexy | catatonic stupor | daydreaming | daze | dream state | fugue | fugue state | hypnotic trance | loss of memory | reverie | sleepwalking | somnambulism | stupor | trance | word deafness

See Also | anterograde amnesia | cognitive state | forgetfulness | posttraumatic amnesia | retrograde amnesia | selective amnesia | state of mind | transient global amnesia

Amnesia In Webster's Dictionary

\Am*ne"si*a\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ?; 'a priv. + ? to remember.] (Med.) Forgetfulness; also, a defect of speech, from cerebral disease, in which the patient substitutes wrong words or names in the place of those he wishes to employ. --Quian.

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