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PRESENILE DEMENTIA
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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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