mne-, mnem-, mnemon-, mnes-, -mnesia, -mnesiac, -mnesic, -mnestic +
(Greek: memory, to remember)
catamnesis, catamnestic
1. The medical history of a patient following an illness; the follow-up history.
2. The follow-up medical or psychiatric history of a patient after he/she is discharged from treatment or a hospital.
3. The history of a patient after the onset of medical or mental illness.
Clytemnestra
From Greek Mythology: The wife of Agamemnon who, with the assistance of her lover Aegisthus, murdered him on his return from the Trojan War and was later murdered by her son Orestes.
At the end of the ten-year Trojan war, Agamemnon returned to Mycenae where his kinsman, Aegisthus (who had previously murdered Agamemnon's father) invited him to a banquet where Agamemnon was treacherously slain. Princess Cassandra of Troy, who had been brought back by Agamemnon as a war trophy, was also put to death by Clytemnestra.
cryptanamnesia
1. Cryptomnesia (subconscious memory) or hidden memory.
2. The recall of memories not recognized as such but thought to be original creations.
cryptomnesia, cryptomnesic
1. The recall of memories not recognized as such or forgotten experiences that are recalled but which appear to be completely new.
2. The recall to mind of a forgotten episode that seems entirely new to the patient and not a part of his/her former experiences; subconscious memory.
dysmnesia, dysmnesic
Any impairment of memory, as in amnestic syndrome; a bad memory.
ecmnesia
1. Loss of memory with regard to the events of a particular period.
2. Impairment of memory for recent events with normal memory for distant events.
hieromnemon
1. The sacred secretary or recorder sent by each state belonging to the Amphictyonic Council, along with the deputy or minister.
2. In Greek Antiquity: The title of one of the two deputies sent by each constituent tribe to the Amphictyonic council, whose office was more particularly concerned with religious matters.
3. A magistrate who had charge of religious matters, as at Byzantium.
hypermnesia (high" puhrm NEE zhuh, high" puhrm NEE zhi uh)
1. Exceptionally exact or vivid memory, especially as associated with certain mental illnesses.
2. An abnormally vivid or complete memory or the reawakening of impressions apparently long forgotten (as in a moment of extreme danger when drowning, etc.).
3. A capacity under hypnosis for immediate registration and precise recall of many more individual things than is thought possible under ordinary circumstances.
4. Extreme retentiveness or unusual clarity of memory.
hypermnestic
A reference to or characterized by hypermnesia or the ability to recall things to a greater than normal degree.
hypomnesia, hypomnesis, hypomnestic
1. A condition of having a weakened memory.
2. Abnormally poor memory of the past.
lapsus memoriae
1. Sometimes considered as a symptom of memory foible or error.
2. A slip of the memory, sometimes considered to be a symptom of a mental illness.
logamnesia
1. Aphasia or a defect or loss of the power of expression by speech or writing of a sensory character.
2. The inability to recognize spoken or written words; forgetting words.
mnemasthenia
A weakness of memory.
mneme
The capacity which a living substance or organism possesses for retaining after-effects of experience or stimulation undergone by itself or its progenitors.
mnemic
Pertaining to, of the nature of, or involving mneme.
Etymologically related "forget, forgetfulness" word families:
aletho-;
letho-;
oblivio-.
Related "memory, remembering" word families:
memor-;
reminisc-.