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senile dementia

–noun Pathology.
a syndrome of progressive, irreversible impairment of cognitive function, caused by organic factors and having its onset late in life.

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1850–55
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senile dementia  
n.  A progressive, abnormally accelerated deterioration of mental faculties and emotional stability in old age, occurring especially in Alzheimer's disease.
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Main Entry: senile dementia
Function: noun
: a mental disorder of old age especially of the degenerative type associated with Alzheimer's disease called also senilepsychosis
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senile dementia n.
A progressive, abnormally accelerated deterioration of mental faculties and emotional stability in old age, occurring especially in Alzheimer's disease.

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