anamnesis

Other forms of anamnesis

plural

anamneses

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about anamnesis

What does anamnesis mean?

anamnesis means "the case history of a medical patient as recalled by the patient". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in anamnesis?

anamnesis has 4 syllables and divides as a-nam-ne-sis under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for anamnesis?

Close synonyms include medical history, medical record, remembrance, recollection. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is anamnesis a common word?

anamnesis is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.