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

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