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Definition of Amnestic
1. Adjective. Of or relating to or caused by amnesia.
Definition of Amnestic
1. a. Causing loss of memory.
Definition of Amnestic
1. Adjective. (medicine) That causes amnesia. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Amnestic
1. pertaining to amnesia [adj] - See also: amnesia
Medical Definition of Amnestic
1. 1. An agent causing amnesia. 2. A disorder in which the essential feature is an impairment of the memory function. Synonym: amnesic. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Amnestic
Literary usage of Amnestic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of Insanity by New York (State). State Lunatic Asylum (1905)
"A CASE OF SYPHILIS OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM PRESENTING CLINICALLY AN amnestic SYMPTOM
COMPLEX, WITH AUTOPSY. BY EMMA W. MOOERS, MD (From the Pathological ..."
2. The Soul of Man: An Investigation of the Facts of Physiological and by Paul Carus (1891)
"amnestic aphasia usually shows in post mortem examinations a destruction of the
... As a special form of amnestic aphasia we may consider the state in which ..."
3. Diseases of the nervous system: A Text-book for Students and Practitioners by Hermann Oppenheim (1900)
"Some have discarded the term amnestic aphasia, or confined it to those cases in
which a general disturbance of the memory was the cause of the verbal ..."
4. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"amnestic Aphasia.—This is characterized exclusively by the symptom of ... The term
amnestic aphasia, however, is reserved for the cases in which this ..."
5. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1897)
"... optic aphasia (amnestic color blindness), apperceptive (transcortical) word-
... verbal paraphasia, and sensory amnestic aphasia (incapacity to call up ..."
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