What's the difference between amnesia and amnesic?

Amnesia


Definition:

  • (n.) Forgetfulness; also, a defect of speech, from cerebral disease, in which the patient substitutes wrong words or names in the place of those he wishes to employ.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) And any Labour commitment on spending is fatally undermined by their deficit amnesia.” Davey widened the attack on the Tories, following a public row this week between Clegg and Theresa May over the “snooper’s charter”, by accusing his cabinet colleague Eric Pickles of coming close to abusing his powers by blocking new onshore developments against the wishes of some local councils.
  • (2) Flunitrazepam produced a dose-related incidence of amnesia slightly longer than with the equivalent (1 x 10) dose of diazepam.
  • (3) MIDAZOLAM IS SUPERIOR TO DIAZEPAM IN CERTAIN WAYS: it has a more rapid onset; produces greater anterograde amnesia, less postoperative drowsiness, less venous irritation and less likelihood of thrombophlebitis development.
  • (4) The present research focuses on indirect memory tests as a potential means of discriminating between those who genuinely suffer from amnesia and those who are simulating.
  • (5) Associative agnosias are traditionally regarded as perceptual, and ideational apraxia as motor, deficits, but they can be understood as amnesias for generic knowledge, caused by bilateral or unilateral left-hemispheric cortical lesions.
  • (6) Amphetamine overcomes the amnesia caused by cycloheximide (CXM) provided it is administered closely following the learning trial.
  • (7) Pure blow-out fracture or comminuted facial fracture, double vision and amnesia emerged as additional factors which yielded an efficient scoring system with a sensitivity of 89% and specificity of 90% for the population upon which it was based.
  • (8) A is for America Vidal described his homeland as the United States of Amnesia.
  • (9) Nicky Holloway: Paul and I had to go back for the closing night of Amnesia in October.
  • (10) We examined a 55-year-old right-handed woman showing transient coma, amnesia, mild right hemiparesis, vertical gaze impairment and aphonia without aphasia.
  • (11) The results indicate that prevention of haloperidol-induced retention impairment, by oxiracetam, may be due to a not yet defined protective action, common to other nootropic agents, on different types of experimental amnesias, rather than to a specific interaction with dopaminergic mechanisms.
  • (12) We demonstrate that domoate-treated rats exhibit a long-lasting anterograde amnesia for spatial information in the Morris water task.
  • (13) The process of recovery has three stages, in the first the patient is unconscious, in the second he or she regains full consciousness signified by the end of the period of post traumatic amnesia and continues to show evidence of rapid improvement in basic physical and mental functions.
  • (14) The amnesia about the continent’s capacity for slaughter will be broken in The Hague on Thursday, where judgment will be passed on Radovan Karadžić for charges of genocide and crimes against humanity during the 1992-95 war in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
  • (15) Studies of human amnesia and studies of an animal model of human amnesia in the monkey have identified the anatomical components of the brain system for memory in the medial temporal lobe and have illuminated its function.
  • (16) The present experiment shows that TTX induces retrograde amnesia even when applied to the PBN 48 h after PAR acquisition only if it is preceded by a 30-min confinement (extinction) or by a footshock (retraining) in the dark compartment.
  • (17) No cerebrovascular events occurred over a 1-to 5-year follow-up, suggesting that transient global amnesia with infarction or hemorrhage is not a strong predictor of further stroke.
  • (18) Amnesia was similar in the two groups up to the time of removal of the endoscope.
  • (19) Clinical symptoms of amnesia appear when amyloid induces neighbouring neuritic alterations: paired helical filaments and distant neuronal body lesions: neurofibrillary tangles.
  • (20) The results do not support the idea of a simple parallel between autism and mediotemporal lobe amnesias.

Amnesic


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to amnesia.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) With respect to short-term amnesic effects, efficacy and tolerability Diazemuls was comparable to the conventional formulation of diazepam.
  • (2) While problem solving and visuoperceptual deficits seem to develop slowly during decades of alcoholism, the amnesic symptoms associated with Korsakoff's syndrome may appear acutely when severe malnutrition and alcoholism are combined.
  • (3) became globally amnesic following an attack of Herpes Simplex Encephalitis.
  • (4) To evaluate the generality of this proposition we studied procedural learning on three different tasks in an amnesic patient who displayed no signs of intellectual deterioration including problem-solving difficulty.
  • (5) With benzodiazepines, StD of memory retrieval conceivably constitutes a parsimonious explanation of the anxiolytic and untoward (amnesic, drug dependence) actions of these drugs.
  • (6) The results indicate that crying in response to the violation of a reward-expectation habit functions as an amnesic agent to produce accelerated forgetting.
  • (7) Premedicant determined by body weight was not correlated with the induction dose and amnesic effect.
  • (8) With regard to forensic assessment, it is significant that behaviour foreign to the personality could not be observed in amnesic episodes.
  • (9) For the cases with medial temporal lobe damage, evidence is reported in greater detail for H.M., who has been examined more than any other amnesic patient for more than 30 years now, as a considerable amount of literature has accumulated on his behavior in diverse situations.
  • (10) Priming effects were equivalent in amnesic patients and control subjects and they reached baseline levels within 2 hr.
  • (11) This case is therefore not an exception to the general rule that a severe and global amnesic state is only observed with bilateral lesions.
  • (12) Previous research demonstrated that a single amnesic patient could acquire complex knowledge and processes required for the performance of a computer data-entry task.
  • (13) Nalbuphine was shown to have analgesic, sedative, and amnesic properties similar to meperidine.
  • (14) The amnesic subjects were also impaired on the acquisition of a set of concurrent visual discriminations.
  • (15) In this article we consider a series of experiments that have attempted to clarify the nature of priming in amnesic patients and normal subjects.
  • (16) The data show that recall decayed significantly faster for the amnesic subjects than for controls, whereas the rate of forgetting for recognition memory was comparable in both groups.
  • (17) These peptides do not have anti-amnesic activity when given before acquistion.
  • (18) The first task was designed to simulate amnesic symptoms in normals.
  • (19) The causes and semiological formulae of these syndromes are varied, but they are all characterized by anterograde amnesia combined with a retrograde amnesic disorder and by elective damage of episodic and declarative memories, the semantic and procedural memories, as well as intelligence, being usually spared.
  • (20) There is some evidence that partial tolerance to amnesic effects develops with repeated doses of diazepam, but research with other benzodiazepines is inconclusive.

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