amnesic

pronunciation

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  • Noun:
    a person suffering from amnesia
  • Adjective:
    of or relating to or caused by amnesia
    suffering from a partial loss of memory

Word Origin

amnesic (adj.)
"pertaining to amnesia," 1863; see amnesia + -ic.

Example

1. The researchers tested four healthy individuals and four amnesic patients .
2. Patients that are amnesic don 't know they are amnesic .
3. However , episodic and semantic memory may be dissociable in those amnesic patients who additionally have severe frontal lobe damage .
4. After visiting his bank in zurich , jason bourne , an amnesic assassin , wonders : " who has a safety-deposit box full of money and six passports and a gun ? "

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