Meaning | mental deterioration of organic or functional origin. |
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Synonym | dementedness |
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Narrower | alcoholic dementia, alcohol amnestic disorder, Korsakoff's psychosis, Korsakoff's syndrome, Korsakov's psychosis, Korsakov's syndrome, polyneuritic psychosis | dementia observed during the last stages / stages of severe chronic alcoholism |
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presenile dementia | dementia with onset before the age of 65 |
senile dementia, senile psychosis | dementia of the aged |
Broader | insanity | relatively permanent / permanent disorder of the mind |
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Spanish | demencia |
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Catalan | demència |
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