dementia
noun/dɪˈmɛnʃə/
Etymology Borrowed from Latin dēmentia.
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Medicine, Pathology, Sciences Usually A progressive decline in cognitive function due to damage or disease in the brain beyond what might be expected from normal aging. Areas particularly affected include memory, attention, judgement, language and problem solving.
- Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems— […]. Such a slow-release device containing angiogenic factors could be placed on the pia mater covering the cerebral cortex and tested in persons with senile dementia in long term studies.2013 May-June, Charles T. Ambrose, “Alzheimer’s Disease”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, page 200:
- In recent years some clinical trials involving potential dementia drugs have had disappointing setbacks.2018 January 18, Jürgen Götz, “Why it’s so hard to treat dementia”, in CNN:
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Usually Madness or insanity.
- Derived terms
- academentia, antidementia, dementia café, dementia dialytica, dementia infantilis, dementialike, dementia paralytica, dementia praecox, dementia precox, dementia pugilistica, familial British dementia, infantile dementia, nondementia, paralytic dementia, predementia, pseudodementia, pseudopseudodementia, semidementia, senile dementia, steroid dementia, vascular dementia
- Related terms
- amentia, demented, demential, Alzheimer's disease, delirium