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amnesia
(am-ne´zhә)
pathologic impairment of memory, usually the result of physical damage to areas of the brain from injury, disease, or alcoholism.
Psychologic factors may also cause this; a shocking or unacceptable situation may be too painful to remember, with the situation
being retained only in the subconscious mind. The technical term for this is repression. See also dissociative disorders.

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