dementia : Idioms & Phrases
alcoholic dementia
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noun dementia observed during the last stages of severe chronic alcoholism; involves loss of memory for recent events although long term memory is intact
alcohol amnestic disorder; Korsakov's syndrome; Korsakov's psychosis; polyneuritic psychosis; Korsakoff's syndrome; Korsakoff's psychosis.
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dementia praecox
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noun any of several psychotic disorders characterized by distortions of reality and disturbances of thought and language and withdrawal from social contact
schizophrenic psychosis; schizophrenia; schizophrenic disorder.
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presenile dementia
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noun dementia with onset before the age of 65
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senile dementia
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noun dementia of the aged; results from degeneration of the brain in the absence of cerebrovascular disease
senile psychosis.