senile dementia

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nounPathology.
  1. a syndrome of progressive, irreversible impairment of cognitive function, caused by organic factors and having its onset late in life.

Origin of senile dementia

1
First recorded in 1850–55

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How to use senile dementia in a sentence

  • We will say that this case begins with simple senile dementia—physical brain degeneration, a result of advanced age.

    Dearest | Henry Beam Piper
  • Added to senile dementia there is often found a condition of mania or melancholia or even of systematized delusional insanity.

  • Age softens some hard characters, but in John Wynne the early development of senile dementia deprived him of this chance.

    Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker | S. Weir Mitchell
  • Sexual anæsthesia or hypoæsthesia or even impotence may occur in the later stages of general paralysis and senile dementia.

    The Sexual Question | August Forel
  • We have seen that senile paradoxy often shows itself, as a symptom of senile dementia, by a sexual appetite for children.

    The Sexual Question | August Forel

British Dictionary definitions for senile dementia

senile dementia

noun
  1. dementia starting in old age with no precipitating physical cause

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