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–noun Psychiatry.

severe impairment or loss of intellectual capacity and personality integration, due to the loss of or damage to neurons in the brain.

[Origin: 1800–10; < L démentia madness, equiv. to dément- out of one's mind (see dement) + -ia n. suffix

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de·men·tial, adjective

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de·men·tia Audio Help (dĭ-měn'shə) Pronunciation Key
n.

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.
Madness; insanity. See Synonyms at insanity.

[Latin dēmentia, madness, from dēmēns, dēment-, senseless; see dement.]

de·men'tial adj.

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dementia
noun
mental deterioration of organic or functional origin

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Deterioration of intellectual faculties, such as memory, concentration, and judgment, sometimes accompanied by emotional disturbance and personality changes. Dementia is caused by organic damage to the brain (as in Alzheimer's disease), head trauma, metabolic disorders, or the presence of a tumor.

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de·men·tia (d-mnsh)
n.

Deterioration of intellectual faculties, such as memory, concentration, and judgment, resulting from an organic disease or a disorder of the brain, and often accompanied by emotional disturbance and personality changes.

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Main Entry: de·men·tia
Pronunciation: di-'men-ch&
Function: noun
: a condition of deteriorated mentality that is characterized by marked decline from the individual's former intellectual level and often by emotional apathy —compare AMENTIA —de·men·tial /-ch&l/ adjective

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Dementia

De*men"ti*a\, n. [L., fr. demens. See Dement.] Insanity; madness; esp. that form which consists in weakness or total loss of thought and reason; mental imbecility; idiocy.

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In*san"i*ty\, n. [L. insanitas unsoundness; cf. insania insanity, F. insanite.]

1. The state of being insane; unsoundness or derangement of mind; madness; lunacy.

All power of fancy overreason is a degree of insanity. --Johnson.

Without grace The heart's insanity admits no cure. --Cowper.

2. (Law) Such a mental condition, as, either from the existence of delusions, or from incapacity to distinguish between right and wrong, with regard to any matter under action, does away with individual responsibility.

Syn: Syn>- Insanity, Lunacy, Madness, Derangement, Aliention, Aberration, Mania, Delirium, Frenzy, Monomania, Dementia.

Usage: Insanity is the generic term for all such diseases; lunacy has now an equal extent of meaning, though once used to denote periodical insanity; madness has the same extent, though originally referring to the rage created by the disease; derangement, alienation, are popular terms for insanity; delirium, mania, and frenzy denote excited states of the disease; dementia denotes the loss of mental power by this means; monomania is insanity upon a single subject.

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