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1. (n.) dementia
severely impaired memory and reasoning ability, usu. with disturbed behavior, associated with damaged brain tissue.
Etymology: (1895–1900; < NL: precocious dementia)
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1. (noun) dementia, dementedness
mental deterioration of organic or functional origin
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1. (noun) Dementia
insanity; madness; esp. that form which consists in weakness or total loss of thought and reason; mental imbecility; idiocy
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U.S. National Library of Medicine |
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1. Dementia
An acquired organic mental disorder with loss of intellectual abilities of sufficient severity to interfere with social or occupational functioning. The dysfunction is multifaceted and involves memory, behavior, personality, judgment, attention, spatial relations, language, abstract thought, and other executive functions. The intellectual decline is usually progressive, and initially spares the level of consciousness.
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