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Definition of Senile dementia
1. Noun. Dementia of the aged; results from degeneration of the brain in the absence of cerebrovascular disease.
Medical Definition of Senile dementia
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Senile Dementia
Literary usage of Senile dementia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Psychological Review by American Psychological Association (1896)
"This second group is again subdivided into : A. Cases of senile dementia, ... B.
Cases of senile dementia which set in with apoplexies or other focal ..."
2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1864)
"senile dementia.—At the end of an elaborate memoir on senile dementia and its
difference ... senile dementia does not constitute a distinct morbid state. ..."
3. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"(f) senile dementia Normally, in old age, the circle of ideas becomes circumscribed;
there is loss of mental elasticity, and impoverishment of interests, ..."
4. Nervous and Mental Diseases by Archibald Church, Frederick Peterson (1919)
"This system is well developed in England, but with us is practically non-existent.
CHAPTER VIII. senile dementia AND OTHER SENILE PSYCHOSES. ..."
5. Manual of Psychiatry by Joseph Rogues de Fursac, Aaron Joshua Rosanoff (1916)
"senile dementia. SENILE dementia may be defined as a peculiar state of intellectual
... senile dementia is rare before the age of sixty 1 Russell. ..."
6. Nervous and Mental Diseases by Archibald Church, Frederick Peterson (1914)
"This system is well developed in England, but with us is practically non-existent.
CHAPTER VIII. senile dementia AND OTHER SENILE PSYCHOSES. ..."
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