Definitions for Anamnesis

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Anamnesis an·am·ne·sis

Spelling: [an-am-nee-sis]

IPA: /ˌæn æmˈni sɪs/

Anamnesis is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 321 anagrams from letters in Anamnesis (aaeimnnss).

Definitions for Anamnesis

noun

1. the recollection or remembrance of the past; reminiscence.
2. Platonism. recollection of the Ideas, which the soul had known in a previous existence, especially by means of reasoning.
3. the medical history of a patient.
4. Immunology. a prompt immune response to a previously encountered antigen, characterized by more rapid onset and greater effectiveness of antibody and T cell reaction than during the first encounter, as after a booster shot in a previously immunized person.
5. (often initial capital letter) a prayer in a Eucharistic service, recalling the Passion, Resurrection, and Ascension of Christ.

Origin of Anamnesis

1650-60; New Latin Greek anámnēsis remembrance, equivalent to ana(mi)mnḗ(skein) to remember (ana ana- + mimnḗskein to call to mind) + -sis

Examples for Anamnesis

Recollection (anamnesis) alone would prove pre-existence, but not existence after death.

The material furnished by the anamnesis is the source from which our work starts.

The anamnesis states that she was slow, complained of not being able to think and feeling as if she had no brain.

Frequently these early symptoms are reported in the anamnesis and not actually observed by the physician.

An aunt who gave the anamnesis had known the patient only since she came to the United States, a year before admission.

With the exception of negativism, which appears only in the anamnesis, all the cardinal stupor symptoms are found in this history.