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senile dementia

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senile dementia
n.
A progressive, abnormally accelerated deterioration of mental faculties and emotional stability in old age, occurring especially in Alzheimer's disease.
senile dementia
n
(Medicine / Pathology) dementia starting in old age with no precipitating physical cause
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Noun1.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
Translations
senile dementia
n (Med) → senile Demenz (spec), → Altersschwachsinn m


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