Defenition of the word dementia
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Defenition of the word dementia
- Severe and progressive impairment or loss of intellectual capacity and personality integration, due to the loss of or damage to neurons in the brain.
- mental deterioration of organic or functional origin
Synonyms for the word dementia
Hyponyms for the word dementia
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- alcohol amnestic disorder
- alcoholic dementia
- Korsakoff's psychosis
- Korsakoff's syndrome
- Korsakov's psychosis
- Korsakov's syndrome
- polyneuritic psychosis
- presenile dementia
- senile dementia
- senile psychosis
Hypernyms for the word dementia
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