PICK'S DISEASE

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

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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Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("Pick's disease" is a kind of...):

presenile dementia (dementia with onset before the age of 65)

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