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    PRESENILE DEMENTIA

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Dementia with onset before the age of 65play

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

    Hypernyms ("presenile dementia" is a kind of...):

    dementedness; dementia (mental deterioration of organic or functional origin)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "presenile dementia"):

    Alzheimer's; Alzheimer's disease; Alzheimers (a progressive form of presenile dementia that is similar to senile dementia except that it usually starts in the 40s or 50s; first symptoms are impaired memory which is followed by impaired thought and speech and finally complete helplessness)

    Pick's disease (a progressive form of presenile dementia found most often in middle-aged and elderly women and characterized by degeneration of the frontal and temporal lobes with loss of intellectual ability and transitory aphasia)

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