senile dementia

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senile dementia

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

senile dementia

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

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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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senile dementia

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

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