| DMA | department of medical assistance; dimethylamine; dimethylaniline; dimethylarginine; direct memory ac... |
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| DRAM | dynamic random access memory |
| EM | early memory; ejection murmur; electromagnetic; electron micrograph; electron microscopy, electron m... |
| EPROM | erasable programmable read-only memory |
| IMC | indigent medical care; information-memory-concentration [test]; interdigestive migrating contraction... |
| senile memory | Memory that is good for remote events, often in contrast to current events; characteristically seen in aged or demented persons. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| short-term memory | <psychology> Temporary storage of information for a few seconds to hours, as opposed to long-term memory which refers to material stored for days, years, or a lifetime. (12 Dec 1998) |
| subconscious memory | Information not immediately available for recall. (05 Mar 2000) |
| immunological memory | <immunology> The systems responsible for the situation where reactions to a second or subsequent exposure to an antigen are more extensive than those seen on first exposure (but See immunological tolerance. The memory is best explained by clonal expansion and persistence of such clones following the first exposure to antigen. (18 Nov 1997) |
| immunologic memory | <immunology> The ability to rapidly produce large quantities of specific immune cells after subsequent exposure to a previously encountered antigen. (09 Oct 1997) |
| temporary memory | <psychology> Temporary storage of information for a few seconds to hours, as opposed to long-term memory which refers to material stored for days, years, or a lifetime. (12 Dec 1998) |
| long-term memory | That phase of the memory process considered the permanent storehouse of information which has been registered, encoded, passed into the short-term memory, coded, rehearsed, and finally transferred and stored for future retrieval; material and information retained in LTM underlies cognitive abilities. (05 Mar 2000) |