dementia pugilistica
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of dementia pugilistica
First recorded in 1925–30; dementia ( def. ) + pugilistica (from Latin pugil “boxer”; see pugilism ( def. )); the disease was first identified in boxers
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“A pension plan should take care of you for life,” said Ramos, who has several medical conditions, including dementia pugilistica, a type of chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, linked to repeated head trauma.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 11, 2023
It’s not that CTE is a foreign concept; the neurodegenerative disease has been likened to boxing’s dementia pugilistica.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 2, 2015
Put another way, 35 men on the pitch in Phoenix can be expected to endure early-onset Alzheimer’s or dementia pugilistica for the entertainment of everyone else.
From Economist ● Jan. 29, 2015
The medical community doesn’t question the existence of dementia pugilistica, the brain damage found in boxers.
From Slate ● Oct. 11, 2013
Even before science asserted the link in the late 1920s, naming the condition dementia pugilistica, the term “punch drunk” had entered common parlance.
From Washington Post
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