| 释义 |
> as lemmasAlzheimer's disease Alzheimer's disease n. (also Alzheimer disease) a common form of dementia (progressive mental deterioration) typically beginning in late middle age, characterized clinically by memory loss, confusion, and disorientation, and pathologically by degeneration and loss of neurons and the presence of neurofibrillary tangles and senile plaques in certain parts of the brain.< |