anamnesis

English

Etymology

Examples (rhetoric)
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From Ancient Greek ἀνάμνησις (anámnēsis, “remembrance”), verbal noun of ἀναμιμνήσκω (anamimnḗskō), from ἀνα- (ana-) +‎ μιμνῄσκω (mimnḗiskō, “call to mind”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌænæmˈniːsɪs/

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Noun

anamnesis (countable and uncountable, plural anamneses)

1. The ability to recall past events; recollection.
2. (medicine) The medical history of a patient.
3. (rhetoric) The mention of the past; quotation of exemplary authors from memory to establish one’s authority.
4. (Christianity) The remembrance and celebration of God’s works by the liturgy of the church.

Derived terms

• catamnesis
• heteroamnesis

 

Related terms

• anamnestic
• anamnestically

Translations

recollection

• Bulgarian: припомняне (pripomnjane)
• Catalan: anamnesi (ca) f
• French: anamnèse (fr)
• Italian: anamnesi (it)
• Norwegian: anamnese
• Portuguese: anamnese (pt) f, anamnésia (pt) f, reminiscência (pt) f, memória (pt) f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: анамне́за f

  Roman: anamnéza (sh) f

• Spanish: anamnesia

medical history of a patient

• Belarusian: ана́мнез m (anámnjez)
• Bulgarian: анамнеза (bg) (anamneza)
• Catalan: anamnesi (ca) f
• Czech: anamnéza f
• Dutch: anamnese (nl)
• Esperanto: anamnezo
• Finnish: anamneesi (fi)
• French: anamnèse (fr) f
• German: Anamnese (de) f
• Indonesian: anamnesis (id)
• Japanese: 病歴 (ja) (byōreki)
• Polish: anamneza (pl) f
• Portuguese: anamnese (pt) f, anamnésia (pt) f, histórico (pt) m
• Romanian: anamneză (ro) f
• Russian: ана́мнез (ru) m (anámnez)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: анамне́за f

  Roman: anamnéza (sh) f

• Slovak: anamnéza f
• Swedish: anamnes (sv)
• Turkish: anamnez (tr), anamnezi (tr), sağlık öyküsü
• Walloon: anamnesse (wa) f

See also

• anamnesis on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Medical history on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Indonesian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἀνάμνησις (anámnēsis, “remembrance”), verbal noun of ἀναμιμνήσκω (anamimnḗskō), from ἀνα- (ana-) +‎ μιμνῄσκω (mimnḗiskō, “call to mind”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [anamˈnɛsɪs]
• Hyphenation: anam‧nè‧sis

Noun

anamnèsis (first-person possessive anamnesisku, second-person possessive anamnesismu, third-person possessive anamnesisnya)

1. anamnesis:
   1. (medicine, psychology) the medical history of a patient.
   2. (Catholicism) a liturgical statement in which the Church refers to the memorial character of the Eucharist or to the Passion, Resurrection and Ascension of Christ.

Alternative forms

• anamnesa
• anamnese

Further reading

• “anamnesis” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

Spanish

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἀνάμνησις (anámnēsis).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /anamˈnesis/ [a.nãmˈne.sis]
• Rhymes: -esis
• Syllabification: a‧nam‧ne‧sis

Noun

anamnesis f (plural anamnesis)

1. (medicine) anamnesis

Further reading

• “anamnesis”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014