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Meaning of AMNESIA

Pronunciation:  am'neezhu

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: [n]  partial or total loss of memory; "he has a total blackout for events of the evening"
 
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 Synonyms: blackout, memory loss
 
 See Also: anterograde amnesia, cognitive state, forgetfulness, posttraumatic amnesia, retrograde amnesia, selective amnesia, state of mind, transient global amnesia

 

 

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 Definition: 

Amnesia
This experimental graphic novel, set in a non-specified near future, explores the events that transpire while a journalist attempts to keep an appointment to interview a film maker, and is told via first-person narratives, flashbacks and flashforwards, and dreams.

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Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\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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Medical Dictionary
 
 Definition: An impairment or lack of memory. Amnesia after a trauma event can be either antegrade (lack of memory related to events occurring after the event) or retrograde (lack of memory related to events occurring before the event).
 
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Biology Dictionary
 
 Definition: This is the condition in which one's memory is lost due to disease or psychological or physical trauma.
 
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Thesaurus Terms
 
 Related Terms: 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
 

 

 

 

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