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transient global amnesia

amnestic disorder that is characterized by temporary but almost total disruption of short-term memory with a range of problems accessing older memories.
MedicalCondition class_of_disease Q18740
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transient global amnesia

Summary

transient global amnesia is a class of disease[1]. It draws 1,388 Wikipedia views per month (class_of_disease category, ranking #402 of 1,968).[2]

Key Facts

  • transient global amnesia's instance of is recorded as class of disease[3].
  • transient global amnesia is a type of amnesia[4].
  • transient global amnesia is a type of disease[5].
  • transient global amnesia's Commons category is recorded as Transient global amnesia[6].
  • transient global amnesia's ICD-9-CM is recorded as 437.7[7].
  • transient global amnesia's NCI Thesaurus ID is recorded as C85198[8].
  • transient global amnesia's health specialty is recorded as neurology[9].
  • transient global amnesia's exact match is recorded as http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/DOID_13027[10].
  • transient global amnesia's exact match is recorded as http://identifiers.org/doid/DOID:13027[11].
  • transient global amnesia's exact match is recorded as http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/HP_0010534[12].
  • transient global amnesia's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as WikiProject Medicine[13].

Why It Matters

transient global amnesia draws 1,388 Wikipedia views per month (class_of_disease category, ranking #402 of 1,968).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 14 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[14] It is known by 7 alternative names across languages and contexts.[15]

Related Entities

Bertha of Kent disease neurology

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . Disease Ontology. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . Disease Ontology. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . Disease Ontology. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . Disease Ontology. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . Identifiers.org. registry.identifiers.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . Human Phenotype Ontology release 2018-03-08. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [14] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [15] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 5d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → class of disease
    Subclass of → —
    Subclass of → amnesia, disease
    Instance of → —
    + 3 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|3 */ [[Property:P8189]]: 987007553886705171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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