Associations to the word «Anamnesis»

Wiktionary

ANAMNESIS, noun. The ability to recall past events; recollection.
ANAMNESIS, noun. (medicine) The medical history of a patient.
ANAMNESIS, noun. (rhetoric) The mention of the past; quotation of exemplary authors from memory to establish one's authority.

Dictionary definition

ANAMNESIS, noun. The case history of a medical patient as recalled by the patient.
ANAMNESIS, noun. The ability to recall past occurrences.

Wise words

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky