dementia
noun /dɪˈmenʃə/
/dɪˈmenʃə/
[uncountable] (psychology)- a serious mental disorder caused by brain disease or injury, that affects the ability to think, remember and behave normally
- patients with dementia
- a dementia sufferer/patient
- She was diagnosed with dementia.
- 111 people in the study subsequently developed dementia.
- The staff have specialist training in dementia care.
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Word Originlate 18th cent.: from Latin, from demens, dement- ‘out of one's mind’.