Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun posttraumatic_amnesia

1 sense of posttraumatic amnesia

Sense 1
anterograde amnesia, posttraumatic amnesia -- (loss of memory for events immediately following a trauma; sometimes in effect for events during and for a long time following the trauma)
       => amnesia, memory loss, blackout -- (partial or total loss of memory; "he has a total blackout for events of the evening")