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dementia noun[ U ] medical specializeduk /dɪˈmen.ʃə/ us /dɪˈmen.ʃə/ a medical condition that affects especially old people, causing the memory and other mental abilities to gradually become worse, and leading to confused behaviour: (尤指老年性)痴呆 The most common form of dementia is Alzheimer's disease.最常见的痴呆病是阿尔茨海默氏症。 SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Mental illnesses ad adjustment disorder age-associated memory impairment anhedonia anorectic exhibitionistic exhibitionistically false memory firebug generalized anxiety disorder melancholia mental handicap neurotic postnatal psychosis postpartum depression postpartum psychosis PPD progressive simultanagnosia schizophrenic seasonal affective disorder
dementia | American Dictionary dementia noun[ U ] us/dɪˈmen·ʃə/ a disease or condition that exists esp. among older people, and that results in the gradual loss of mental abilities, such as the ability to think, reason, and remember things |