dementia
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de·men·tia
(dĭ-mĕn′shə)n.
Loss of cognitive abilities, including memory, concentration, communication, planning, and abstract thinking, resulting from brain injury or from a disease such as Alzheimer's disease or Parkinson's disease. It is sometimes accompanied by emotional disturbance and personality changes.
[Latin dēmentia, madness, from dēmēns, dēment-, senseless; see dement.]
de·men′tial adj.
dementia
(dɪˈmɛnʃə; -ʃɪə)n
(Pathology) a state of serious emotional and mental deterioration, of organic or functional origin
[C19: from Latin: madness; see dement]
de•men•tia
(dɪˈmɛn ʃə, -ʃi ə)n.
severely impaired memory and reasoning ability, usu. with disturbed behavior, associated with damaged brain tissue.
de•men′tial, adj.
dementia
madness or insanity. Cf. amentia.
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Noun | 1. | dementia - mental deterioration of organic or functional origin insanity - relatively permanent disorder of the mind alcohol amnestic disorder, alcoholic dementia, Korsakoff's psychosis, Korsakoff's syndrome, Korsakov's psychosis, Korsakov's syndrome, polyneuritic psychosis - dementia observed during the last stages of severe chronic alcoholism; involves loss of memory for recent events although long term memory is intact presenile dementia - dementia with onset before the age of 65 senile dementia, senile psychosis - dementia of the aged; results from degeneration of the brain in the absence of cerebrovascular disease |
dementia
nounSerious mental illness or disorder impairing a person's capacity to function normally and safely:
brainsickness, craziness, derangement, disturbance, insaneness, insanity, lunacy, madness, mental illness, psychopathy, unbalance.
Psychiatry: mania.
Psychology: aberration, alienation.
Translations
demence
demens
dementia
demencijasilpnaprotystė
demens
dementia
n → Schwachsinn m, → Demenz f (spec); dementia praecox → Jugendirresein nt, → Dementia praecox f (spec)
de·men·ti·a
n. demencia, locura; declinación de las funciones mentales;
___ paralytica → ___ paralítica;
___ praecox → ___ precoz, esquizofrenia;
organic ___ → ___ orgánica;
senile ___ → ___ senil.