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  • noun pathology Early symptoms (such as memory-loss) that sometimes lead to full-blown dementia

Etymologies

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From pre- +‎ dementia

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Examples

  • But now 22 percent, or 5.4 million people over seventy have “predementia.”

    The UltraMind Solution M.D. Mark Hyman 2009

  • A woman with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) was on the panel—MCI is sort of like pre-Alzheimer’s or predementia—and everyone on the panel (including the Harvard neurologist) agreed that memory loss is not a normal part of aging.

    The UltraMind Solution M.D. Mark Hyman 2009

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