anamnesis

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anamnesis (countable and uncountable; plural anamneses)

1. The ability to recall past events; recollection.
2. (medicine) The medical history of a patient.
3. (rhetoric) The mention of the past; quotation of exemplary authors from memory to establish one's authority.

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• anamnestic
• anamnestically

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