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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 diseaseplay

  Familiarity information: SENILE DEMENTIA used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SENILE DEMENTIA (noun)


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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