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haɪ noun Pathology.
a common form of dementia of unknown cause, usually beginning in late middle age, characterized by memory lapses, confusion, emotional instability, and progressive loss of mental ability.
Origin:
named after Alois Alzheimer (1864–1915), German neurologist, who described it in 1907
named after Alois Alzheimer (1864–1915), German neurologist, who described it in 1907
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Alzheimer's disease (ˈæltsˌhaɪməz) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| Often shortened to: Alzheimer's a disorder of the brain resulting in a progressive decline in intellectual and physical abilities and eventual dementia | |
| [C20: named after A. Alzheimer (1864--1915), German physician who first identified it] | |
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Alzheimer
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| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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Word Origin & History
Alzheimer's disease
(senium præcox), 1912, title of article by S.C. Fuller published in "Journal of Nervous and Mental Diseases;" named for Ger. neurologist Alois Alzheimer (1864-1915). Not common before 1970s; shortened form Alzheimer's first recorded 1954.
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Medical Dictionary
Alzheimer's disease Alz·hei·mer's disease (älts'hī-mərz, ālts'-, ôlts'-)
n.
A degenerative disease of the brain, characterized by clumps of neurofibrils and microscopic brain lesions and by confusion, disorientation, memory failure, and speech disturbances, and resulting in progressive loss of mental capacity.
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Science Dictionary
Alzheimer's disease  (äls'hī-mərz) Pronunciation Key
A progressive, degenerative disease of the brain, commonly affecting the elderly, and associated with the development of amyloid plaques in the cerebral cortex. It is characterized by confusion, disorientation, memory failure, speech disturbances, and eventual dementia. The cause is unknown. alzheimer's disease is named for its identifier, German psychiatrist Alois Alzheimer (1864-1915). |
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