engram
eng·ram
noun
1.
a postulated biochemical change (presumably in neural tissue) that represents a memory
Origin
Borrowed 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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