pertaining to or exhibiting the characteristics of presenility; prematurely old
Word origin
[1895–1900; pre- + senile]This word is first recorded in the period 1895–1900. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: Marxism, cutback, flamenco, hit-and-run, neonpre- is a prefix occurring originally in loanwords from Latin, where it meant “before”(preclude; prevent); applied freely as a prefix, with the meanings “prior to,” “in advance of,” “early,”“beforehand,” “before,” “in front of,” and with other figurative meanings (preschool; prewar; prepay: preoral; prefrontal)
Examples of 'presenile' in a sentence
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The association of non-exercise group and presenile nuclear cataract seems to be related to co-morbidity.
Seung Wan Nam, Dong Hui Lim, Kyu Yeon Cho, Hye Seung Kim, Kyunga Kim, Tae-Young Chung 2018, 'Risk factors of presenile nuclear cataract in health screening study', BMC Ophthalmologyhttp://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12886-018-0928-6. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Ophthalmologists should consider this condition especially in presenile patients with slowly progressive higher-order visual symptoms.
Leonardo Ferreira Caixeta, Alexandre Chater Taleb, Bruno Galafassi Ghini, Vânia LúciaDias Soares, Victor de Melo Caixeta, Ciro Vargas 2013, 'Posterior cortical atrophy - a prototypical case of dementia beginning with visualsymptoms: case report', Arquivos Brasileiros de Oftalmologiahttp://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0004-27492013000500014&lng=en&tlng=en. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Previously, proliferation was found to be increased in glia-rich regions of the presenile hippocampus.
Michael W. Marlatt, Jan Bauer, Eleonora Aronica, Elise S. van Haastert, Jeroen J.M. Hoozemans, Marian Joels, Paul J. Lucassen 2014, 'Proliferation in the Alzheimer Hippocampus Is due to Microglia, Not Astroglia, andOccurs at Sites of Amyloid Deposition', Neural Plasticityhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/693851. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)