See Also: Amnesia(medicine)
amnesia(encyclopedia)
amnesia(dictionary)
Amnesia(health)
amnesia(dictionary)
posthypnotic amnesia(medicine)
amnesia, retrograde(medicine)
anterograde amnesia(medicine)
Anterograde amnesia(health)
Antegrade amnesia(health)

Barbary (iou) and Amnesia (medicine)


Barbary (iou)



Barbary noun. In sense 2 also barbary. ME.
[Sense 1 ult. from Arab. barbar (cf. BERBER); sense 2 from Old French barbarie or Latin barbaria, -ies land of barbarians, formed as BARBAROUS: see -Y3.]
(An old name for) the western part of N. Africa. ME.
Foreign nationality; paganism; barbarity; barbarism; foreign or non-Christian lands. LME-M17.
Comb.: Barbary ape a macaque, Macaca sylvana, of N. Africa and Gibraltar; Barbary falcon a falcon, Falco pelegrinoides, of N. Africa and the Middle East; Barbary partridge a N. African partridge, Alectoris barbara; Barbary sheep = AOUDAD.

Amnesia (medicine)


amnesia
<neurology> Lack or loss of memory, inability to remember past experiences.

Origin: Gr. Amnesia = forgetfulness