Path. [mod.L., a. Gr. ἀμνησία forgetfulness.] Loss of memory.
1824. Lancaster Intelligencer, 4/1. The late bishop of Landaff, Dr. Watson, gives a singular case of partial amnesia in his father, the result of an apoplectic attack.
1829. Amer. Jrnl. Med. Sci., IV. 171. In this latter case, the only symptom remarkable was the amnesia, an inability to remember or utter words, either by the voice or with a pen, without the least impairment of the motions of the tongue, or the organs concerned in speech, and with a perfect understanding of all that was said, or indicated by signs.
1878. A. M. Hamilton, Nerv. Dis., 130. In place of there being simply a difficulty in expressing a clearly originated idea, there may be a condition of amnesia.
1880. Bastian, Brain, xxix. 621. An ordinary case of Amnesia … in which the ‘volitional’ and ‘associational’ recall of names was impossible, though their ‘sensory’ recall was preserved.
