dementia

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.

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[Latin dēmentia, madness, from dēmēns, dēment-, senseless; see dement.]

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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.

[1800–10; < Latin dēmentia madness <dē- de- + mēns mind + -ia -ia]

de•men′tial, adj.

dementia

madness or insanity. Cf. amentia.

See also: Insanity

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

dementia - mental deterioration of organic or functional origin dementedness 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

noun

Serious 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

Demenz

άνοια

dementia

démencedémentiel

demencijasilpnaprotystė

demência

demens

dementia

[dɪˈmenʃɪə] N → demencia f
senile dementia → demencia f senil

dementia

[dɪˈmɛnʃiə dɪˈmɛnʃə] n → démence fdemerara sugar [ˌdɛmərɛərəˈʃʊgə^r] (British) n → sucre m roux, cassonade f

dementia

n → Schwachsinn m, → Demenz f (spec); dementia praecox → Jugendirresein nt, → Dementia praecox f (spec)

dementia

[dɪˈmɛnʃɪə] n (Med) → demenza

de·men·ti·a

n. demencia, locura; declinación de las funciones mentales;

___ paralytica → ___ paralítica;

___ praecox → ___ precoz, esquizofrenia;

organic ___ → ___ orgánica;

senile ___ → ___ senil.

dementia

n demencia; Alzheimer’s — demencia de Alzheimer, demencia tipo Alzheimer; — pugilistica demencia pugilística; multi-infarct — (ant) demencia vascular, demencia multiinfarto (ant); vascular — demencia vascular