Amnesia
* can be permanent , or it can be temporary
  - result from a shock, or from halting between two opinions
* common plot device in film noir.
* is another danger that usually follows a sleepwalking episode
  - central to the mannered theater that is life in Washington
  - common for people with one of the dissociative orders
  - devastating on the individual level
  - forgetfulness
  - important in assessing severity of brain injury
  - potentially a symptom of a serious problem and requires prompt medical attention
  - said to be retrograde when the memory loss is for events prior to the injury
* is the colonization of memory
  - disease of the exiled
  - loss of memory
  - total loss of memory
* means serious memory loss.
* prevents memories of a trauma from entering the survivor's consciousness.
* problem with remembering things.
* results from loss of access rather than loss of stored information.
* severe form of memory loss.
* shows an incomplete response to treatment.
+ Amnesia, Causes
  * Amnesia can be permanent, or it can be temporary. Damage to the brain, or the use of certain drugs can cause amnesia. Some of these drugs are sedatives. Another well known cause for amnesia can be drinking too much alcohol. Those kinds of causes are called 'organic', because they can been directly seen. Other causes cannot directly be seen, they are called 'functional'.
+ Anterograde amnesia: Neurology :: Symptoms
  * Amnesia is a problem with remembering things. In anterograde amnesia, people have trouble making memories last - they forget. With Anterograde  amnesia, the longer-term memories from the time before the event remain intact. The amnesia may be partial or complete.

Adjacency
* Adjacencies are nearness
  - control the distribution of routing protocol packets
  - describe the same pair of label spaces
* is assumed within a field

African life
* involves walking great distances and the stick is an integral part of the bush life.
* revolves around markets.

Adherence
* continues to be a major contributor to the success of anti-HIV therapy.
* is an absolute requirement for the initiation of cell cytotoxicity
  - dependent on specific recognition systems between epithelial cells and bacteria
  - monitored in the laboratory by hemagglutination of red blood cells
  - support
* is the ability of a fired or nonfired color to stay in place on a given surface
  - important first step in development of an infection
* is the key factor upon which arrest and reversal therapy depends
  - to long-term success for safe, effective, lasting weight loss
  - most important factor associated with the virologic success of therapy
* means that the bacteria attaches itself to the intestinal lining cells.
* problem throughout the different areas of medicine and throughout the world.
* vital factor in intestinal colonisation.

Attributable risk
* estimates the excess risk of disease in the exposed compared to the nonexposed.
* is of most relevance to a societal appraisal of the harms of drug use
  - the disease rate in exposed persons minus that in unexposed persons

Affluence
* also causes poverty.
* fosters an addiction to greater affluence.
* helps to mask moral and spiritual poverty.
* is associated with smaller family size
  - linked to better nutrition, which promotes early growth
* is the amount of carbon-producing activity per person
  - experience in which our needs are easily met and our desires spontaneously filled
  - provide-ance of Life for our sustainment
  - wealth
* leads to the denigration of the profit motive on which that affluence rests.
* seems to affect management of breast cancer.