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Amnesia   Listen
noun
amnesia  n.  
1.
(Med.) Forgetfulness; loss of long-term memory.
2.
(Med.) 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. (Obs.)





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"Amnesia" Quotes from Famous Books



... was equally impossible that Alice had made the trip, yet here was proof. Proof that swept him up in a doubting of his own senses. How could such a thing have taken place? Had he actually made such a trip and been stripped of the memory by some amnesia? Maybe he had forced himself to go with her and the power of his lifelong phobia had ...
— The Memory of Mars • Raymond F. Jones
... Bergstrom went on, "that your lost memory will turn out to be no ordinary amnesia. I believe we will find that your mind ...
— Monkey On His Back • Charles V. De Vet
... obligatory sentence and Barrent had left the booth. Well-trained in the lessons of the classroom, he had taken himself into custody, had gone to the nearest thought-control center in Trenton. Already a partial amnesia had taken place, keyed to and triggered by the ...
— The Status Civilization • Robert Sheckley
... an aggravated case of amnesia. Hasn't eaten. Didn't even know her children. Cured now, but she'll need a few weeks to build up." He snapped shut ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science July 1930 • Various
... point, the moment when amnesia intervenes. But later there may come a time when the erected wall safeguarding the secondary personality gives way. The first, submerged or walled-off personality may step across the levelled barrier. That extraordinarily dramatic moment does come in the new novel and ...
— When Winter Comes to Main Street • Grant Martin Overton


Words linked to "Amnesia" :   selective amnesia, blackout, amnestic, amnesic, retrograde amnesia, anterograde amnesia, posttraumatic amnesia, posthypnotic amnesia, transient global amnesia, forgetfulness, cognitive state, state of mind


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