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- noun pathology Early
symptoms (such asmemory -loss ) that sometimes lead to full-blowndementia
Etymologies
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From pre- + dementia
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Examples
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But now 22 percent, or 5.4 million people over seventy have “predementia.”
The UltraMind Solution M.D. Mark Hyman 2009
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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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