PRESENILE DEMENTIA

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Dementia with onset before the age of 65

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("presenile dementia" is a kind of...):

dementedness; dementia (mental deterioration of organic or functional origin)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "presenile dementia"):

Alzheimer's; Alzheimer's disease; Alzheimers (a progressive form of presenile dementia that is similar to senile dementia except that it usually starts in the 40s or 50s; first symptoms are impaired memory which is followed by impaired thought and speech and finally complete helplessness)

Pick's disease (a progressive form of presenile dementia found most often in middle-aged and elderly women and characterized by degeneration of the frontal and temporal lobes with loss of intellectual ability and transitory aphasia)

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