- senile dementia
- noun Date: circa 1851 dementia of old age especially of the degenerative type associated with Alzheimer's disease
New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.
senile dementia
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senile 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… … Medical dictionary
senile dementia — >> senility. Webster s New World Law Dictionary. Susan Ellis Wild. 2000 … Law dictionary
senile dementia — ► NOUN ▪ severe mental deterioration in old age, characterized by loss of memory and lack of control of bodily functions … English terms dictionary
senile 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… … Useful english dictionary
senile dementia — N UNCOUNT Senile dementia is a mental illness that affects some old people and that causes them to become confused and to forget things. She is suffering from senile dementia … English dictionary
senile dementia — senile de mentia n [U] a serious medical condition that affects the minds of some old people, and makes them confused and behave in a strange way … Dictionary of contemporary English
senile dementia — senile de mentia noun uncount a medical condition that affects the mind of an old person and makes them become confused, forget things, and behave in a strange way … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
senile dementia — noun dementia occurring in old age as a result of progressive brain degeneration … English new terms dictionary
senile dementia — a dementia of old age … The new mediacal dictionary
senile dementia — UK / US noun [uncountable] old fashioned dementia … English dictionary
