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The review of material or the discovery of new explicit relationships resulting in greater retention of a previous experience, retroactive inhibition.  

A memory deficit suffered after a head injury or concussion in which the person loses memory of some period prior to the injury.  

A stimulus that helps to retrieve a memory trace.  

The process of searching for some item in memory and finding it. When retrieval fails, this may or may not mean that the relevant memory trace is absent; it simply means that it is inaccessible. In psychology, the process of bringing stored information to the conscious level.  

The act of leaving paid employment. The retiree, upon reaching a predetermined age, is usually provided some regular payment such as a pension and/or Social Security payment, flexible retirement; mandatory retirement.  

A hereditary condition resulting from a break in the choroid. A hereditary condition in which inflammation of the retina can result in blindness. Retinitis pigmentosa (RP) or “more appropriately named rod-cone generalized dystrophy, is a varied group of disorders characterized by. . . [progressive] retinal rod and cone degeneration” (Reynolds, 2001,). No single classification system…

Inflammation of the retina, the innermost part of the eye. Inflammation of the retina. In practice, the term is often used for conditions not strictly inflammatory; for example retinitis pigmentosa, a non-inflammatory hereditary condition involving progressive degeneration of the retina. For such conditions the term retinopathy is becoming more widely used. Symptoms include diminished vision,…

The image of an object that is projected on the retina. Its size increases with the size of the object and decreases with its distance from the eye.  

Uncontrolled bleeding from vessels within the eye’s retina. Bleeding from small blood vessels in the surface of the retina. Retinal hemorrhage is usually caused by extremely violent force to the eye; it is a common sign of shaken baby syndrome, a type of severe child abuse. The condition can also result from falls from at…