单词 | dementedness |
释义 | dementedness (once / 1074483 pages) n WORD FAMILY demented: dementedly, dementedness USAGE EXAMPLESMallard had got the vertigo, he reported the gambler's launch on dementedness to the earl. Meredith, George, The Amazing Marriage — Complete(2010) It's a delusion amounting to dementedness to suppose, that with the people inside our defences, we can be taming them and tricking them. Meredith, George, Beauchamp's Career — Complete(2010) n mental deterioration of organic or functional origin Syn|Hypo|Hyper dementia Korsakoff's psychosis, Korsakoff's syndrome, Korsakov's psychosis, Korsakov's syndrome, alcohol amnestic disorder, alcoholic dementia, polyneuritic psychosis dementia observed during the last stages of severe chronic alcoholism; involves loss of memory for recent events although long term memory is intact presenile dementiadementia with onset before the age of 65 senile dementia, senile psychosisdementia of the aged; results from degeneration of the brain in the absence of cerebrovascular disease Alzheimer's, Alzheimer's disease, Alzheimersa progressive form of presenile dementia that is similar to senile dementia except that it usually starts in the 40s or 50s; first symptoms are impaired memory which is followed by impaired thought and speech and finally complete helplessness Pick's diseasea progressive form of presenile dementia found most often in middle-aged and elderly women and characterized by degeneration of the frontal and temporal lobes with loss of intellectual ability and transitory aphasia insanity relatively permanent disorder of the mind |
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