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- noun The loss of memories from the period leading up to the amnesic episode
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- noun loss of memory for events immediately preceding a trauma
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mollusque commented on the word retrograde amnesia
Behind the bright aluminum siding and plastic signage poked bits of brick and corbels from the 1890s. The whole town lived in continuous retrograde amnesia.
--Richard Powers, 2007, The Echo Maker, p. 315
November 7, 2008