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Definition of Anamnesis
1. Noun. The case history of a medical patient as recalled by the patient.
Generic synonyms: Case History
Terms within: Family History
Derivative terms: Anamnestic
2. Noun. The ability to recall past occurrences.
Generic synonyms: Memory, Retention, Retentiveness, Retentivity
Derivative terms: Anamnestic, Remember, Remember, Remember, Remember, Remember
Definition of Anamnesis
1. n. A recalling to mind; recollection.
Definition of Anamnesis
1. Noun. The ability to recall past events; recollection. ¹
2. Noun. (medicine) The medical history of a patient. ¹
3. Noun. (rhetoric) The mention of the past; quotation of exemplary authors from memory to establish one's authority. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Anamnesis
1. [n -NESES]
Medical Definition of Anamnesis
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Anamnesis
Literary usage of Anamnesis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Clinical text-book of medical diagnosis by Oswald Vierordt (1895)
"But it is always well for the beginner to secure as complete an anamnesis, or
prior history, as possible, in order that he may allow nothing of importance ..."
2. Monographic Medicine by Albion Walter Hewlett, Henry Leopold Elsner (1916)
"anamnesis.—This is the account given by the patient and hia friends of the life
of the ... The anamnesis The taking of a proper anamnesis is not easy. ..."
3. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"The examination of this part of the body will be considered under the following
headings: (1) special anamnesis; (2) determination of the form, ..."
4. Diseases of the Stomach by Ismar Boas (1907)
"The anamnesis. All clinicians and clinical text-books have so frequently emphasised
the importance, in making a diagnosis, of an exhaustive anamnesis, ..."
5. Psychiatric-neurologic Examination Methods: With Special Reference to the by August Wimmer (1919)
"anamnesis Schedule L Are there any insanity, neuroses, (epilepsy, hysteria,
etc.), inebriety, suicides, morbid individuality or criminality in the patient's ..."
6. The One Offering: A Treatise on the Sacrificial Nature of the Eucharist by Michael Ferrebee Sadler (1878)
"3, " But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance" (or anamnesis) " again ...
The "remembrance," or "anamnesis," here mentioned refers to the purpose or ..."
7. The Unsound Mind and the Law: A Presentation of Forensic Psychiatry by George W. Jacoby (1918)
"A. anamnesis. (PREVIOUS HISTORY) Confronted with the problem of examining an insane
... Where the anamnesis discloses the existence of a direct or indirect ..."
8. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1913)
"... or very low pars media (unconfirmed). The contracture is in part functional.
Classical ulcer anamnesis including ..."
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