amnestic
- a word derived from amnesia.
Example Sentences
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Patients have mostly been excluded from trials, since they are "usually aimed at patients with amnestic Alzheimer's with low scores on memory tests," La Joie added.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 23, 2024
He “has no recollection and no memory of what happened because he was in an amnestic state,” attorney Dale Rubin said, adding that when Gargiulo came to, he apologized and ran out of the apartment.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2019
By this point, a year and a half after her amnestic M.C.I. diagnosis, she had progressed to what Duffy said was Alzheimer’s disease.
From New York Times ● May 14, 2015
“Stanford has recently repeatedly claimed being ‘completely amnestic to his life prior to the assault, stating that 59 years were stolen,’” Costa said in the filing, citing the Butner report.
From BusinessWeek ● Dec. 16, 2011
We do not consider the analysis finished until all the obscurities of the case are cleared up, all amnestic gaps filled out and the occasions which originally called out the suppressions discovered.
From A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Freud, Sigmund
