Meaning of DEMENTIA
| Pronunciation: | | di'menshu
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| | Definition: | | [n] mental deterioration of organic or functional origin |
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| | Synonyms: | | dementedness |
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| | See Also: | | alcohol amnestic disorder, alcoholic dementia, insanity, Korsakoff's psychosis, Korsakoff's syndrome, Korsakov's psychosis, Korsakov's syndrome, polyneuritic psychosis, presenile dementia, senile dementia, senile psychosis | |
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| | Definition: | | \De*men"ti*a\, n. [L., fr. demens. See {Dement}.]
Insanity; madness; esp. that form which consists in weakness
or total loss of thought and reason; mental imbecility;
idiocy.
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- Loss of intellectual functions, (such as thinking, remembering, and reasoning) of sufficient severity to interfere within an individual's daily functioning.
- Dementia is clinical syndrome characterized by the organic loss of intellectual functioning, such as impairment of orientation, memory, comprehension, calculation, learning capacity and judgment. The DSM of the American Psychiatric Association has a summary of diagnostic criteria for dementia. The prevalence of dementia increases with age, starting with 1 percent at age 60, and double the rate every 5 years. Alzheimer's disease is associated with dementia.
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| | Related Terms: | | aberration, abnormality, alienation, brain damage, brainsickness, clouded mind, craziness, daftness, dementedness, derangement, disorientation, distraction, folie, furor, insaneness, insanity, irrationality, loss of mind, loss of reason, lunacy, madness, mania, mental deficiency, mental derangement, mental disease, mental disorder, mental disturbance, mental illness, mental instability, mental sickness, mind overthrown, mindsickness, oddness, pixilation, possession, queerness, rabidness, reasonlessness, senselessness, shattered mind, sick mind, sickness, strangeness, unbalance, unbalanced mind, unsaneness, unsound mind, unsoundness, unsoundness of mind, witlessness |
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