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Word: Dementia
Speech Type: Noun
Etymology:
late 16th century: from Latin, from demens, dement- ‘out of one's mind’
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Phonetic Spelling:
dɪˈmɛnʃə
Dialects: British English
Definition:
a condition characterized by progressive or persistent loss of intellectual functioning, especially with impairment of memory and abstract thinking, and often with personality change, resulting from organic disease of the brain.
Short Definition:loss of intellectual functioning caused by brain disease
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