21Symptoms, signs or clinical findings, not elsewhere classified
Mental or behavioural symptoms, signs or clinical findings
MB21Symptoms, signs or clinical findings involving cognition
MB21.1Amnesia
MB21.10
category
Anterograde amnesia
Definition An inability to recall past experiences, especially where recall is to be expected, occurring after an event (psychological or physical) presumed to be responsible for the amnesia.
Also indexed as
Anterograde amnesia antegrade amnesia
International Classification of Diseases, Eleventh Revision (ICD-11), World Health Organization (WHO) 2019/2021, https://icd.who.int/browse11. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 3.0 IGO (CC BY-ND 3.0 IGO).
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