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noun
A rare neurodegenerative disease that causes progressive destruction of nerve cells in the brain. Symptoms include aphasia and dementia.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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noun
a progressive form of presenile dementia found most often in middle-aged and elderly women and characterized by degeneration of the frontal and temporal lobes with loss of intellectual ability and transitory aphasia
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: presenile dementia
History
Named after Arnold Pick, psychiatry professor who first discovered and described the disease in 1892.
