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fugue state |
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fugue state Neurology A state in which the Pt denies memory of activities for a period of hrs to wks; to external appearances these activities were either completely normal or the Pt disappeared and traveled extensively; most are functional;
short fugues rarely occur in temporal lobe epilepsy. Cf Jamais vu Psychiatry A state of personality dissociation characterized by amnesia and possibly physical flight from the customary environment or field of conflict. See Dissociation, Multiple
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I was in a tabloid-induced fugue state at the supermarket checkout counter, musing about whether Linda Tripp could have killed JonBenet, when my credit card problems began. The still vigorously violent and miserly Fritz is retired from the hard life of a farmer and wants "some peace"--something he is not likely to get now that his unlucky son James, in a fugue state since he lost his job and home in Illinois, has moved in with his wife and children. |
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