anamnesis

anamnesis

English

Etymology

Examples (rhetoric)
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From Ancient Greek ἀνάμνησις (anámnēsis, “remembrance”), verbal noun of ἀναμιμνήσκω (anamimnḗskō), from ἀνα- (ana-) +‎ μιμνῄσκω (mimnḗiskō, “call to mind”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌænæmˈniːsɪs/

Noun

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.

Related terms

• anamnestic
• anamnestically

Translations

recollection

Bulgarian: припомняне (pripomnjane) Catalan: anamnesi (ca) f French: anamnèse (fr) Italian: anamnesi (it) Norwegian: anamnese Portuguese: anamnese (pt) f, anamnésia (pt) f, reminiscência (pt) f, memória (pt) f Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: анамне́за f Roman: anamnéza (sh) f Spanish: anamnesia

medical history of a patient

Belarusian: ана́мнез m (anámnjez) Bulgarian: анамнеза (bg) (anamneza) Catalan: anamnesi (ca) f Czech: anamnéza f Dutch: anamnese (nl) Esperanto: anamnezo Finnish: anamneesi (fi) French: anamnèse (fr) f German: Anamnese (de) f Indonesian: anamnesis (id) Japanese: 病歴 (ja) (byōreki) Polish: anamneza (pl) f Portuguese: anamnese (pt) f, anamnésia (pt) f, histórico (pt) m Romanian: anamneză (ro) f Russian: ана́мнез (ru) m (anámnez) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: анамне́за f Roman: anamnéza (sh) f Slovak: anamnéza f Swedish: anamnes (sv) Walloon: anamnesse (wa) f

See also

• anamnesis on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Medical history on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Indonesian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἀνάμνησις (anámnēsis, “remembrance”), verbal noun of ἀναμιμνήσκω (anamimnḗskō), from ἀνα- (ana-) +‎ μιμνῄσκω (mimnḗiskō, “call to mind”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [anamˈnɛsɪs]
• Hyphenation: anam‧nè‧sis

Noun

anamnèsis (first-person possessive anamnesisku, second-person possessive anamnesismu, third-person possessive anamnesisnya)

1. anamnesis:
   1. (medicine, psychology) the medical history of a patient.
   2. (Catholicism) a liturgical statement in which the Church refers to the memorial character of the Eucharist or to the Passion, Resurrection and Ascension of Christ.

Alternative forms

• anamnesa
• anamnese

Further reading

• “anamnesis” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

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Spanish

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἀνάμνησις (anámnēsis).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /anamˈnesis/ [a.nãmˈne.sis]
• Rhymes: -esis
• Syllabification: a‧nam‧ne‧sis

Noun

anamnesis f (plural anamnesis)

1. (medicine) anamnesis

Further reading

• “anamnesis”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014