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

By contrast, their memory of the disturbing scenes for which reminders had appeared between two suppression trials hovered around 55 percent, showing that the amnesic shadow dimmed the recollection of those scenes.

From Scientific American • Dec. 9, 2022

The whole thing was prosaic enough; and the Brown-personality seems to be nothing but a rather shrunken, dejected, and amnesic extract of Mr. Bourne himself.

From Introduction to the Science of Sociology by Park, Robert Ezra