amnesia
Definitions of amnesia
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partial or total loss of memorytypes:amnesia postraumáticaloss of memory for events immediately following a trauma; sometimes in effect for events during and for a long time following the traumaamnesia retrógradaloss of memory for events immediately preceding a traumatype of:estado de ánimothe state of a person's cognitive processes
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