senile dementia
a syndrome of progressive, irreversible impairment of cognitive function, caused by organic factors and having its onset late in life.
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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 PiperAdded 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 MitchellSexual anæsthesia or hypoæsthesia or even impotence may occur in the later stages of general paralysis and senile dementia.
The Sexual Question | August ForelWe 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
dementia starting in old age with no precipitating physical cause
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