NOUN
- the ability to recall past occurrences
- the case history of a medical patient as recalled by the patient
How To Use anamnesis In A Sentence
- Mulla Sadra inherited a variety of theories ranging from Platonic recollection (anamnesis) and division to Peripatetic syllogistics, definitions and axiomatic science. Mulla Sadra
- Here our friend _Anamnesis_ seemed fatigued, as if he thought he had spun a sufficiently _long yarn_ on the subject; so we prevailed on him to prosecute the walk, as evening was beginning to close in -- not, indeed, without apprehension that he would make a stand at several other interesting plants on which it might suit him to prelect! Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845.
- The patient can let a doctor look carefully at particular case in the home, examination X mating plate, consult the data such as anamnesis .
- The use of the concepts of amnesia and anamnesis, counter- and auto-hegemony, remembering and re-remembering, provide a theoretical frame for the writing in keeping with postcolonial scholarly discourse.
- The word anamnesis, then, gives us almost everything we need to know about the significance of this section to the book as a whole, to the ending, and to the Iron Council itself. Archive 2004-08-01
- The section is labelled an "anamnesis", a term that goes back to Plato and means a reminiscence or recollection, though it also has some meanings in religion and theosophy, and is even the title of a book by conservative philosopher Eric Voegelin. Archive 2004-08-01
- Plato wrote that humanity could only know the 'real' world in the form of memories; by what he termed anamnesis, meaning the recovery of buried memories, both individual and collective. Kingsley Dennis, Ph.D.: The Need to Build a New Model
- Nonetheless, preaching indispensably correlates ‘human experience in its depths with the biblical word of God,’ thus ‘linking anamnesis with mimesis.’
- So, the early Christians looked two ways: forward and backward, or upward and downward; there was a keen sense of anamnesis (remembering of the past) and anaphora (referring to the future).
- The results of this case emphasized the vital importance of an occupational history anamnesis of patients suspected of having sarcoidosis.