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RETROGRADE AMNESIA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does retrograde amnesia mean?
• RETROGRADE AMNESIA (noun)
The noun RETROGRADE AMNESIA has 1 sense:
1. loss of memory for events immediately preceding a trauma
Familiarity information: RETROGRADE AMNESIA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Loss of memory for events immediately preceding a trauma
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("retrograde amnesia" is a kind of...):
amnesia; blackout; memory loss (partial or total loss of memory)
Context examples
Signs and symptoms include anterograde and retrograde amnesia, confabulation, apathy, ataxia, and coma.
(Korsakoff Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)
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