senile dementia

senile dementia

n.

A progressive, abnormally accelerated deterioration of mental faculties and emotional stability in old age, occurring especially in Alzheimer's disease.

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senile dementia

n

(Pathology) dementia starting in old age with no precipitating physical cause

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se′nile demen′tia

n.

a syndrome of progressive, irreversible impairment of cognitive function, caused by organic factors and having its onset late in life.

[1850–55]

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Noun

1.

senile dementia - dementia of the aged; results from degeneration of the brain in the absence of cerebrovascular disease senile psychosis dementedness, dementia - mental deterioration of organic or functional origin

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Translations

senile dementia

n (Med) → senile Demenz (spec), → Altersschwachsinn m

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