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Dementia
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De-men′ti-a
,Noun.
[L., fr.
demens
. See Dement
.] Insanity; madness; esp. that form which consists in weakness or total loss of thought and reason; mental imbecility; idiocy.
Definition 2024
dementia
dementia
English
Noun
dementia (usually uncountable, plural dementias)
- (pathology) A progressive decline in cognitive function due to damage or disease in the brain beyond what might be expected from normal aging. Areas particularly affected include memory, attention, judgement, language and problem solving.
- 2013 May-June, Charles T. Ambrose, “Alzheimer’s Disease”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, page 200:
- Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems— […]. Such a slow-release device containing angiogenic factors could be placed on the pia mater covering the cerebral cortex and tested in persons with senile dementia in long term studies.
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- Madness or insanity.
Derived terms
- demented
- demential
- senile dementia
Translations
progressive decline in cognitive function
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madness or insanity
See also
Finnish
Noun
dementia
Declension
| Inflection of dementia (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | dementia | dementiat | |
| genitive | dementian | dementioiden dementioitten |
|
| partitive | dementiaa | dementioita | |
| illative | dementiaan | dementioihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | dementia | dementiat | |
| accusative | nom. | dementia | dementiat |
| gen. | dementian | ||
| genitive | dementian | dementioiden dementioitten dementiainrare |
|
| partitive | dementiaa | dementioita | |
| inessive | dementiassa | dementioissa | |
| elative | dementiasta | dementioista | |
| illative | dementiaan | dementioihin | |
| adessive | dementialla | dementioilla | |
| ablative | dementialta | dementioilta | |
| allative | dementialle | dementioille | |
| essive | dementiana | dementioina | |
| translative | dementiaksi | dementioiksi | |
| instructive | — | dementioin | |
| abessive | dementiatta | dementioitta | |
| comitative | — | dementioineen | |
Latin
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /deːˈmen.ti.a/, [deːˈmɛn.ti.a]
Noun
dēmentia f (genitive dēmentiae); first declension
Inflection
First declension.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | dēmentia | dēmentiae |
| genitive | dēmentiae | dēmentiārum |
| dative | dēmentiae | dēmentiīs |
| accusative | dēmentiam | dēmentiās |
| ablative | dēmentiā | dēmentiīs |
| vocative | dēmentia | dēmentiae |
Descendants
Adjective
dēmentia
- nominative neuter plural of dēmēns
- accusative neuter plural of dēmēns
- vocative neuter plural of dēmēns
References
- dementia in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- dementia in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “dementia”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- dementia in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- dementia in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin