Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Deterioration of intellectual faculties, such as memory, concentration, and judgment, resulting from an organic disease or a disorder of the brain. It is sometimes accompanied by emotional disturbance and personality changes.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An extremely low condition of the mental function; profound general mental incapacity.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Insanity; madness; esp. that form which consists in weakness or total loss of thought and reason; mental imbecility; idiocy.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun pathology A progressive decline in
cognitive function due to damage or disease in thebrain beyond what might be expected from normal aging. Areas particularly affected include memory, attention, judgement, language and problem solving. - noun
madness orinsanity
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun mental deterioration of organic or functional origin
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Bleuler believed, however, that the term dementia praecox was too specific and did not always fit the clinical course, which he believed more variable than originally described.
The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry Michael Alan Taylor 1993
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The word dementia comes from the Latin de meaning "apart" and mens from the genitive mentis meaning "mind".
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The word dementia comes from the Latin de meaning "apart" and mens from the genitive mentis meaning "mind".
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The word dementia comes from the Latin de meaning "apart" and mens from the genitive mentis meaning "mind".
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The word dementia comes from the Latin de meaning "apart" and mens from the genitive mentis meaning "mind".
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The word dementia comes from the Latin de meaning "apart" and mens from the genitive mentis meaning "mind".
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The term dementia should refer to irreversible conditions.
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The word dementia comes from the Latin de meaning "apart" and mens from the genitive mentis meaning "mind".
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Alzheimer's disease is a progressive brain disorder characterized by dementia, which is a loss of memory and cognitive thinking skills.
S.Z. Berg: Leeza Gibbons on Remembering Alzheimer's Caregivers S.Z. Berg 2011
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Alzheimer's disease is a progressive brain disorder characterized by dementia, which is a loss of memory and cognitive thinking skills.
S.Z. Berg: Leeza Gibbons on Remembering Alzheimer's Caregivers S.Z. Berg 2011
Kristianto2010 commented on the word dementia
His father had developed dementia and began to lose memories of even his family.
May 9, 2011
Louises commented on the word dementia
"If we ask Sheila then we can't ask Ron. If I have kippers now then it's quiche for tea. Four score years is about all the ifs and thens you can take. Dementia's the sane realisation you just can't be doing with all that any more". "The Last Werewolf" by Glen Duncan
February 25, 2012