senile-dementia

senile dementia

noun Pathology.
a syndrome of progressive, irreversible impairment of cognitive function, caused by organic factors and having its onset late in life.
Origin:
1850–55

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senile dementia
 
—n
dementia starting in old age with no precipitating physical cause

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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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