retroceptuality

(reh' tro sep' shoo AA lih tee)
n. That function of the brain having to do with storing and
retrieving of "retrocepts," the smallest units of memory; a synonym
for "memory" but a more precisely specified term that the latter.
Origin: [From "retro-" and "-ceptual," meaning, approximately (from the Latin), to take from the past.][rec'd October 22, 1989]

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