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SENILE DEMENTIA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does senile dementia mean?
• SENILE DEMENTIA (noun)
The noun SENILE DEMENTIA has 1 sense:
1. dementia of the aged; results from degeneration of the brain in the absence of cerebrovascular disease
Familiarity information: SENILE DEMENTIA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Dementia of the aged; results from degeneration of the brain in the absence of cerebrovascular disease
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
senile dementia; senile psychosis
Hypernyms ("senile dementia" is a kind of...):
dementedness; dementia (mental deterioration of organic or functional origin)
Context examples
A standardized rating scale originally developed by Hachinski et al in 1975 and later modified by Rosen et al in 1980 to clinically differentiate two most common types of dementia: senile dementia of the Alzheimer type (SDAT), a primary degenerative disease, and primary degenerative disease (MID), a vascular disorder.
(Modified Hachinski Ischemic Scale-NACC Version Questionnaire, NCI Thesaurus)
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