dementia

CEFRB2

/dɪˈmɛnʃə/

noun

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Examples

It is very unpleasant to watch how my aunt's dementia keeps getting worse every month.
Those with dementia have a diminished capacity for language.

At a glance

Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

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Extra meaning

A progressive decline in cognitive function due to damage or disease in the brain beyond what might be expected from normal aging. Areas particularly affected include memory, attention, judgement, language and problem solving.

In context

Multilingualism may prevent dementia.
In recent years some clinical trials involving potential dementia drugs have had disappointing setbacks.

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In recent years some clinical trials involving potential dementia drugs have had disappointing setbacks.
2018 January 18, Jürgen Götz, “Why it’s so hard to treat dementia”, in CNN
Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems— […]. Such a slow-release device containing angiogenic factors could be placed on the pia mater covering the cerebral cortex and tested in persons with senile dementia in long term studies.
2013 May-June, Charles T. Ambrose, “Alzheimer’s Disease”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, page 200

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Borrowed from Latin dēmentia.