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ʃə, -ʃi 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; < Latin dēmentia madness, equivalent to dēment- out of one's mind (see dement) + -ia noun suffix
1800–10; < Latin dēmentia madness, equivalent to dēment- out of one's mind (see dement) + -ia noun suffix
Related forms
de·men·tial, adjective
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dementia (dɪˈmɛnʃə, -ʃɪə) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| a state of serious emotional and mental deterioration, of organic or functional origin | |
| [C19: from Latin: madness; see | |
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Word Origin & History
dementia
1806, L. noun of state from dementem, from dementer (see dement). It existed earlier in an anglicized form, demency (1520s), from Fr. démence. Dementia præcox is a Mod.L. form recorded from 1899 in Eng., 1891 in Ger., from Fr. démence précoce (1857). See precocious
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Medical Dictionary
dementia de·men·tia (dĭ-měn'shə)
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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| dementia (dĭ-měn'shə) Pronunciation Key
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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Example sentences
Senile dementia has been around for as long as people have had the means of recording it.
At the start of the study, none of the participants showed signs of dementia.
Advanced dementia has often been treated as an amalgamation of symptoms in the aging, rather than a deadly illness in itself.
Her husband had Lewy body dementia, a progressive brain disease, she said.
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