Smooth muscle and cardiac muscle are both involuntary muscles. Specialized cardiac muscle fibers make up the pacemaker that regulates your heart rate. This pacemaker, in turn, is under the control of the autonomic nervous system, the part of the nervous system that operates below your level of consciousness.
amnesia - partial or total loss of memory; he has a total blackout for events of the evening memory loss, blackout cognitive state, state of mind - the state of a person's cognitive processes
Retrograde amnesia: Amnesia in which the lack of memory relates to events that occurred before a traumatic event. Retrograde amnesia is in contrast to antegrade amnesia in which the lack of memory relates to events that occurred after a traumatic event. Last Editorial Review: 5/13/2016. Back to MedTerms online medical dictionary A-Z List.