amnesic

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During this six-month period, mussels may have naturally occurring toxins that can cause paralytic shellfish poisoning and domoic acid biotoxins, also known as amnesic shellfish poisoning.

From Los Angeles Times • May 9, 2025

By 2014, Bill was unable to remember what he had done even two hours before and a memory clinic in London diagnosed him with amnesic mild cognitive impairment.

From BBC • May 25, 2024

Casey and Sutton’s relationship has long been viciously acrimonious, so Casey struggles to understand the partially amnesic, docile sister who returns to her family — is Sutton irrevocably damaged?

From Seattle Times • Jun. 28, 2023

Pinker is right about the machine’s amnesic qualities—it can’t develop a thought, based on a previous one.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 7, 2019

Those who have been intimately associated with men of genius have noticed that they are very frequently amnesic or “absent-minded.”

From Religion and Lust or, The Psychical Correlation of Religious Emotion and Sexual Desire by Weir, James