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6 letters · 9 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun a postulated biochemical change (presumably in neural tissue) that represents a memory
originBorrowed from German Engramm which was coined by German evolutionary biologist Richard Semon in 1904. First attested in English in 1921 (see quotation below). Ultimately from Ancient Greek ἐν (en, “in”) + γράμμα (grámma, “writing, picture”).
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