Look up: dementia

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   dementia
   [n] - mental deterioration of organic or functional origin
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   Dementia
   [Literally, to lose one's mind.] A generic term for a number of progressive medical conditions, all characterised by a gradual loss of perceptual, memory, and higher cognitive functions. The best known dementia is Alzheimer's disease, but see also multiple-infarct dementia and compare senile dementia.
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   Dementia
   a gradual decline in mental ability usually caused by a brain disease, such as Alzheimer disease
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   Dementia
   Means `loss of mind` i.e. a loss of brain functions in someone who had normal brain function prior to the onset of the illness. It generally relates to elderly adults, but can (very rarely) occur at any age - Many people are surprised that dementia can be a fatal illness. Dementia could be thought of as `brain failure` and is a physical (or organic ...
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   Dementia
   The loss of intellectual functions (such as thinking, remembering, and reasoning) of sufficient severity to interfere with a person`s daily functioning
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   Dementia
   Our Dementia Main Article provides a comprehensive look at the who, what, when and how of Dementia Dementia: Significant loss of intellectual abilities such as memory capacity, severe enough to interfere with social or occupational functioning. Criteria for the diagnosis of dementia include impairment of attention, orientation, memory, judgment, la ...
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   Dementia
   An chronic organic mental illness which produces a global deterioration in cognitive abilities and which usually runs a deteriorating course.
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   Dementia
   De·men'ti·a noun [ Latin , from demens . See Dement .] Insanity; madness; esp. that form which consists in weakness or total loss of thought and reason; mental imbecility; idiocy.
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   dementia
   <neurology, psychiatry> An organic mental disorder characterised by a general loss of intellectual abilities involving impairment of memory, judgment and abstract thinking as well as changes in personality. ... It does not include loss of intellectual functioning caused by clouding of consciousness (as in delirium) nor that caused by depressio ...
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    dementia
    dementedness noun mental deterioration of organic or functional origin
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    Dementia
    `Dementia` (from Latin `de-` `apart, away` + `mens` (genitive `mentis`) `mind`) is the progressive decline in cognitive function due to damage or disease in the brain beyond what might be expected from normal aging. Although dementia is far more common in the geriatric population, it may occur in any stage of adulthood. This age cutoff is by definition, as similar sets of symptoms due to organic brain dysfunction are given different names, such a...
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    dementia
    (dә-men´shә) a general loss of mental abilities, including impairment of memory and often impairments in speech, coordination, ability to understand sensory stimuli, and other mental faculties. Many different conditions can cause dementia; some are reversible and some are progressive with widespread da...
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    Dementia
    • (n.) Insanity; madness; esp. that form which consists in weakness or total loss of thought and reason; mental imbecility; idiocy.
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    dementia
    chronic, usually progressive deterioration of intellectual capacity associated with the widespread loss of nerve cells and the shrinkage of brain ... [5 related articles]
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    dementia
    (de- + L. mens mind) (DSM III) an organic mental disorder characterized by a general loss of intellectual abilities involving impairment of memory, judgment, and abstract thinking as well as changes in personality. It does not include loss of intellectual functioning caused by clouding of consciousness (as in delirium) nor that caused by depressi...
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    dementia
    dementia (di MEN shuh, di MEN shee uh) 1. The loss, usually progressive, of cognitive and intellectual functions, without impairment of perception or consciousness; caused by a variety of disorders, (structural or degenerative) but most commonly associated with structural brain disease. 2. An acquired organic mental disorder with loss of inte...
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    dementia
    The loss, usually progressive, of cognitive and intellectual functions, without impairment of perception or consciousness; caused by a variety of disorders including severe infections and toxins, but most commonly associated with structural brain disease. Characterized by disorientation, impaired memory, judgment, and intellect, and a shallow labil...
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    dementia
    dementia (dimen'shu) [Lat.,=being out of the mind], progressive deterioration of intellectual faculties resulting in apathy, confusion, and stupor. In the 17th cent. the term was synonymous with insanity, and the term dementia praecox was used in the 19th cent. to describe the condition now know...
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