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Definition of Hypermnesia
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Hypermnesia
1. 1. Extreme power of memory. 2. A capacity under hypnosis for immediate registration and precise recall of many more individual items than is thought possible under ordinary circumstances. Compare: hypomnesia. Origin: hyper-+ G. Mneme, memory (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hypermnesia
Literary usage of Hypermnesia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Text-book of Psychiatry: A Psychological Study of Insanity for Practitioners by Emanuel Mendel (1907)
"hypermnesia. This is mostly observed in mania (consult) and generally consists
in the easy calling forth of the images of memory according to the ..."
2. A Dictionary of Psychological Medicine: Giving the Definition, Etymology and by Daniel Hack Tuke (1892)
"(2) hypermnesia, or exaltatum of the memory, about which we have little to say.
... hypermnesia may also be divided into general and partial. ..."
3. A Text-book of Psychiatry for Physicians and Students by Leonardo Bianchi (1906)
"hypermnesia per sc is not a morbid phenomenon. It is the facts that accompany
hypermnesia that give it its truly morbid character. ..."
4. Manual of Psychiatry by Joseph Rogues de Fursac, Aaron Joshua Rosanoff (1916)
"hypermnesia may be general or partial. General hypermnesia is met with in certain
cases of mania; sometimes at the onset of general paresis; following the ..."
5. Mind and Its Disorders: A Text-book for Students and Practitioners by William Henry Butter Stoddart (1908)
"hypermnesia.—In many cases of mania, especially of chronic mania, a condition is
met with in which the patient has remarkable exaltation of memory. ..."
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