dementia
English Thesaurus
1. mental deterioration of organic or functional origin (noun.state)
| hypernym | : | insanity, |
| definition | : | relatively permanent disorder of the mind (noun.state) |
| hyponym | : | alcohol amnestic disorder, alcoholic dementia, korsakoff's psychosis, korsakoff's syndrome, korsakov's psychosis, korsakov's syndrome, polyneuritic psychosis, |
| definition | : | dementia observed during the last stages of severe chronic alcoholism; involves loss of memory for recent events although long term memory is intact (noun.state) |
| hyponym | : | presenile dementia, |
| definition | : | dementia with onset before the age of 65 (noun.state) |
| hyponym | : | senile dementia, senile psychosis, |
| definition | : | dementia of the aged; results from degeneration of the brain in the absence of cerebrovascular disease (noun.state) |
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