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Definition of Amnesic

1. Noun. A person suffering from amnesia.

2. Adjective. Of or relating to or caused by amnesia.

3. Adjective. Suffering from a partial loss of memory.

Definition of Amnesic

1. a. Of or pertaining to amnesia.

Definition of Amnesic

1. Adjective. Of, pertaining to, or suffering from amnesia ¹

2. Noun. A person suffering from amnesia ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Amnesic

1. amnesiac [n -S] - See also: amnesiac

Medical Definition of Amnesic

1. Of or pertaining to amnesia. "Amnesic or coordinate defects." Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Amnesic

ammonylyses ammos ammotherapy ammoxidation ammoxidations ammunition ammunition chest ammunitions amn't amnaesia

amnemonic agraphia amnesia amnesiac amnesiacs amnesias amnesic (current term) amnesic aphasia amnesics amnesiæ amnestic

amnestic aphasia amnestic psychosis amnestic syndrome amnestically amnestied amnesties amnesty amnestying amnia amnic

Literary usage of Amnesic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1894)
"A Case with Aphasic Symptoms: Hemianopsia, amnesic Color-blindness and ... amnesic aphasia. A synopsis of this case may be given as follows: Pathological. ..."

2. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1894)
"A Case with Aphasic Symptoms: Hemianopsia, amnesic Color-blindness and ... amnesic aphasia. A synopsis of this case may be given as follows: ..."

3. Diagnosis from Ocular Symptoms by Matthias Lanckton Foster (1917)
"amnesic Color Blindness When we meet with a patient who can match colors, but has forgotten their names, we shall probably find that he has a right ..."

4. A text-book of mental diseases: with special reference to the pathological by William Bevan Lewis (1899)
"... Effects of Alcohol—Evolutionary Period— Mental, Sensorial, and Motorial Symptoms (.1. J1.)—amnesic Forms (J. F)— Conditions of Mental ..."

5. Handbook of the Diseases of the Nervous System by James Ross (1885)
"SENSORY APHASIA (amnesic APHASIA). The purest examples of sensory aphasia consist of the affections known as word-blindness and word-deafness. ..."

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