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Definition of Dementia
1. Noun. Mental deterioration of organic or functional origin.
Generic synonyms: Insanity
Specialized synonyms: Alcohol Amnestic Disorder, Alcoholic Dementia, Korsakoff's Psychosis, Korsakoff's Syndrome, Korsakov's Psychosis, Korsakov's Syndrome, Polyneuritic Psychosis, Presenile Dementia, Senile Dementia, Senile Psychosis
Derivative terms: Demented
Definition of Dementia
1. n. Insanity; madness; esp. that form which consists in weakness or total loss of thought and reason; mental imbecility; idiocy.
Definition of Dementia
1. Noun. (pathology) A progressive decline in cognitive function due to damage or disease in the brain beyond what might be expected from normal aging. Areas particularly affected include memory, attention, judgement, language and problem solving. ¹
2. Noun. madness or insanity ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Dementia
1. mental illness [n -S]
Medical Definition of Dementia
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Dementia
Literary usage of Dementia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. 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)
"Constitutional factors in the dementia praecox group. Rev. ... On some of the
mental mechanisms in dementia praecox. J. Abnorm. Psychol., Boston, 1010-11, ..."
2. Nervous and mental diseases by Archibald Church, Frederick Peterson (1911)
"He has brought together under this name a group of mental disorders, the
distinguishing feature in all of which is a special type of dementia most clearly ..."
3. Outlines of Psychiatry by William Alanson White (1915)
"dementia precox is 2r psychosis essentially of the period of puberty and adolescence,
characterized by a dementia tending to progress, though frequently ..."
4. Psychological Review by American Psychological Association (1896)
"B. Cases of Senile dementia which set in with apoplexies or other focal symptoms.
Clinically, the cases with focal lesions are marked with rapidly ..."
5. The Unsound Mind and the Law: A Presentation of Forensic Psychiatry by George W. Jacoby (1918)
"The differentiation between dementia praecox paranoides and paranoia itself ...
Inasmuch as a dementia praecox paranoides usually does not develop until ..."