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EPISODIC
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Limited in duration to a single episode
Example:
an account concerned primarily with episodic events such as the succession of rulers
Classified under:
Similar:
impermanent; temporary (not permanent; not lasting)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Occurring or appearing at usually irregular intervals
Example:
occasional headaches
Synonyms:
episodic; occasional
Classified under:
Similar:
unpredictable (not capable of being foretold)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Of writing or narration; divided into or composed of episodes
Example:
the book is episodic and the incidents don't always hang together
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
divided (separated into parts or pieces)
Context examples:
A disorder characterized by an electrocardiographic finding of episodic atrial fibrillation with abrupt onset and termination.
(Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation, NCI Thesaurus)
Episodic breathlessness is seen in patients with lung cancer or other lung diseases, and in some heart conditions.
(Episodic breathlessness, NCI Dictionary)
“These results help us understand how the brain processes the details of our past waking experiences or episodic memories.”
(Our brains may ripple before remembering, National Institutes of Health)
Mutation of the gene is associated with congenital myasthenic syndrome with episodic apnea (familial infantile myasthenia gravis 2).
(CHAT wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)
The night-to-night variability in the older study participants had a major impact on their performance in tests aimed at evaluating episodic memory, said Audrey Duarte, principal investigator in the Memory and Aging Lab at the Georgia Tech School of Psychology.
(Study ties poor sleep to reduced memory performance in older adults, National Science Foundation)
Robin Wordsworth, assistant professor of environmental science and engineering, said: "Early Mars is unique in the sense that it's the one planetary environment, outside Earth, where we can say with confidence that there were at least episodic periods where life could have flourished.
(Methane Gas May Have Caused Greenhouse Effect on Young Mars, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
The episodic nature of the storms indicates Saturn's deep atmosphere contains more water, relative to the other atmospheric constituents, than Jupiter.
(Study Explains Saturn's Epic Tantrums, NASA)
But how the brain forms episodic memories—the memories of events—isn’t well understood.
(Storing memories of recent events, NIH)
As many labs have established, Dr. Zaghloul’s team knew that our episodic memories are controlled by neurons in at least two different parts of the brain, but they did not know exactly how the cells worked together to retrieve memories.
(Our brains may ripple before remembering, National Institutes of Health)
Researchers from the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, Arizona and the University of California, San Diego, have proposed at least 3 different ways that the brain might encode episodic memories.
(Storing memories of recent events, NIH)
