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dementia: Meaning and Definition of

de•men•tia

Pronunciation: (di-men'shu, -shē-u), [key]
— n. Psychiatry.
  1. severe impairment or loss of intellectual capacity and personality integration, due to the loss of or damage to neurons in the brain.
Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.
See also:
démenti dementia praecox
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