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Dementia

Dementia Meaning & Definition
Dementia Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Dementia?

[n] mental deterioration of organic or functional origin

Synonyms | Synonyms for Dementia: dementedness

Related Terms | Find terms related to Dementia: 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

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

Dementia In Webster's Dictionary

\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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