Dementia
121mixed dementia — n dementia involving both Alzheimer s disease and vascular dementia …
122presenile dementia — n dementia beginning in middle age and progressing rapidly compare ALZHEIMER S DISEASE * * * dementia in persons not classified as elderly, usually meaning those aged 65 or younger; since most cases are due to Alzheimer disease, the term is… …
123senile dementia — n a mental disorder of old age esp. of the degenerative type associated with Alzheimer s disease called also senile psychosis * * * loss of the intellectual faculties often associated with behavioural deterioration, beginning for the first time… …
124Alzheimer disease (dementia) etc. — Alz·hei·mer disease (dementia), etc. (awltzґhi mər) [Alois Alzheimer, German neurologist, 1864–1915] see primary degenerative dementia, under dementia, and see under cell and disease, and at Stains and Staining Methods, under stain …
125senile dementia — noun dementia of the aged; results from degeneration of the brain in the absence of cerebrovascular disease • Syn: ↑senile psychosis • Hypernyms: ↑dementia, ↑dementedness * * * noun [noncount] medical : a condition that affects the mind of aging… …
126Space Dementia — may refer to: * Space Dementia , a song by Muse on their album Origin of Symmetry. * A fictional mental disorder referenced in the 1998 film Armageddon . * A game for the TI 89 programmable calculator …
127dialysis dementia — n a neurological syndrome that occurs in some long term dialysis patients, is associated with aluminum deposits in bone and the brain from aluminum containing compounds in the dialysis fluid or in antacids prescribed to control phosphorus balance …
128paralytic dementia — n GENERAL PARESIS * * * dementia paralytica general paresis …
