Dementia

Definition: Dementia

Dementia

Noun

1. Mental deterioration of organic or functional origin.

Date "dementia" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1896. (references)

Etymology: Dementia \De*men"ti*a\, noun. [Latin expression, from demens. See Dement.]. (Websters 1913)

Domain	Definitions
Health	An acquired organic mental disorder with loss of intellectual abilities of sufficient severity to interfere with social or occupational functioning. The dysfunction is multifaceted and involves memory, behavior, personality, judgment, attention, spatial relations, language, abstract thought, and other executive functions. The intellectual decline is usually progressive, and initially spares the level of consciousness. (references)
Medicine	Grossly abnormal and incomplete developpment of intellectual functions. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Dementia (from L demens) is progressive decline in cognitive function due to damage or disease in the brain beyond what might be expected from normal ageing. Particulary affected areas may be memory, attention, language and problem solving, although particularly in the later stages of the condition, affected persons may be disoriented in time (not knowing what day, week, month or year it is), place (not knowing where they are) and person (not knowing who they are).

Affected persons may also show signs of psychosis and delirium.

Types

Alzheimer's disease
multi-infarct dementia (also known as vascular dementia), including Binswanger's disease
Frontotemporal dementia
- dementia with Lewy bodies
- Pick's disease
- Corticobasal degeneration
- Semantic dementia

Synonym: Dementia

Synonym: dementedness (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Insanity	Insanity, lunacy; madness; Adjective: mania, rabies, furor, mental alienation, aberration; paranoia, schizophrenia; dementation, dementia, demency; phrenitis, phrensy, frenzy, raving, incoherence, wandering, delirium, calenture of the brain; delusion, hallucination; lycanthropy; brain storm.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Dementia

English words defined with "dementia": alcohol amnestic disorder, alcoholic dementia, Alzheimer's, Alzheimer's disease ♦ CJD, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease ♦ Demency, dementia praecox ♦ Huntington's chorea, Huntington's disease ♦ Jakob-Creutzfeldt disease, juvenile amaurotic idiocy ♦ Korsakoff's psychosis, Korsakoff's syndrome, Korsakov's psychosis, Korsakov's syndrome ♦ Pick's disease, Planetary aberration, polyneuritic psychosis, presenile dementia ♦ senile dementia, senile psychosis, Spielmeyer-Vogt disease. (references)

Specialty definitions using "dementia": Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, administration durante dementia, administrator durante dementia, AIDS Dementia Complex, AIDS-related dementia, Antipsychotic Agents ♦ Delirium, Dementia, Amnestic, Cognitive Disorders ♦ grant durante dementia ♦ HIV dementia syndrome, HIV-associated dementia ♦ intellectual dementia ♦ Neuroleukin. (references)

Etymologies containing "dementia": Demency. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Dementia" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Danish (dementia), German (dementia), Latin (craziness, cut away, demented, derangement of the mind, distraction, folly, foolish, insanity, lunacy, mad, madness, off, out of one's mind, raving, reckless, remove, senses, subtract, take, take away from, wild, withdraw).

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	But I'm gonna take the organic brain dementia, okay? (Fight Club; writing credit: Jim Uhls)
Movie/TV Titles	Dementia 13 (1963)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
References	The Official Patient's Sourcebook on Dementia with Lewy Bodies (reference) (more reference examples)

Books	Dementia Reconsidered: the Person Comes First (reference) Keeping Busy : A Handbook of Activities for Persons With Dementia (reference) Montessori-Based Activities for Persons with Dementia (reference) Primary Care and Dementia (Bradford Dementia Group Good Practice Guides) (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Dementia (reference) Dementia Care Report (reference) (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies	Dementia (reference) Horror Classics Triple Feature, Vol. 10 (Night of the Living Dead / Revolt of the Zombies / Dementia 13) (reference) Dementia 13 (reference) Dementia 13/Creature From the Haunted Sea (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Dr. Demento 30th Anniversary Collection: Dementia 2000 (reference) Holiday in Dementia (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech	You Don't Know Jack 5th Dementia (reference) (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Senile Dementia.Credit: National Library of Medicine.		Chronic Dementia.Credit: National Library of Medicine.
	Acute Dementia.Credit: National Library of Medicine.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		CJD is characterized as a rapidly progressive dementia. (references)
		Pajeau, A, and Roman, G.HIV Encephalopathy and Dementia. (references)
		Toxins in foods have come under suspicion in a few cases of dementia. (references)
Children	Hong Kong	In 1999 the Government formed the Guardianship Board under the Mental Health Ordinance to protect the interests of persons with mental disabilities or disorders, including dementia. (references)
Human Rights	Ghana	The cause of death was listed as "senile dementia." The Sunyani Central Prison called for a review of his case; however, there was no further information available at year's end. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Dementia" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 97.97% of the time. "Dementia" is used about 640 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	97.97%	627	10,347
Noun (proper)	2.03%	13	97,576
Total	100.00%	640	N/A

Expressions using "dementia": administration durante dementia ♦ administrator durante dementia ♦ AIDS dementia complex ♦ alcoholic dementia ♦ dementia praecox ♦ grant durante dementia ♦ HIV dementia syndrome ♦ intellectual dementia ♦ precocious dementia ♦ presenile dementia ♦ senile dementia. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "dementia": haema-dementia.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "dementia"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		çmenduri (craze, distraction, lunacy, madness). (various references)

Arabic		‏عته, ‏خبل (amentia, befuddle, besot, craze, derange, distract, fluster, frenzy, infatuate, insanity, lunacy, mad, madden, madness, spare, stagger, stultify, stun, stupefaction, stupefy, tangle, unbalance), ‏جنون (craze, craziness, foolishness, insanity, lunacy, madness). (various references)

Bulgarian		малоумие (imbecility), деменция. (various references)

Chinese		老年痴呆. (various references)

Czech		demence. (various references)

Danish		dementia (mental disorder). (various references)

Dutch		dementie (amentia, cognitive decline, demented state, idiocy, insane state, mental disorder, Meynert incoherence syndrome). (various references)

Finnish		dementia e multis infarctibus (chronic cerebrovascular lesions, chronic vascular dementia, multi-infarct dementia, vascular dementia), moni-infarktidementia (chronic cerebrovascular lesions, chronic vascular dementia, multi-infarct dementia, vascular dementia), immuunikadon enkefalopatia (AIDS dementia complex, AIDS-related dementia, HIV dementia syndrome, HIV encephalopathy, HIV-associated dementia), immunikatoviruksen aiheuttama enkefalopatia (AIDS dementia complex, AIDS-related dementia, HIV dementia syndrome, HIV encephalopathy, HIV-associated dementia), Binswangerin tauti (Binswanger's dementia, subcortical arteriosclerotic encephalopathy), älyllisten toimintojen heikentyminen (intellectual dementia). (various references)

French		démence (mental derangement). (various references)

German		schwachsinn (feeblemindedness, feeble-mindedness, idiocy, imbecility, mental deficiency, mentally deficiency, moronism), demenz (intellectual dementia, mental disorder), Dementia (mental disorder). (various references)

Greek		άνοια (amentia, foolishness, idiocy, mental disorder, Meynert incoherence syndrome, senility). (various references)

Hebrew		לקות �"שכל, טרוף (amok, craziness, frenzy, madness, maggot, mixed, scrambled, torn apart). (various references)

Hungarian		tébolyodottság (paranoea, paranoia), elmebaj (deliria, delirium, insanity, lunacy, madness, mental alienation, psychosis), demencia, őrület (craze, craziness, distraction, insanity). (various references)

Italian		demenza (insanity, lunacy, mental disorder). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		痴呆症 , 痴呆 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ちほうしょう, ちほう (area, district, locality, region, the coast). (various references)

Korean		치매. (various references)

Manx		baanrys (derangement, fanaticism, madness). (various references)

Pig Latin		ementiaday

Portuguese		demência (amentia, idiocy, insanity, lunacy, madness, mental disorder, Meynert incoherence syndrome). (various references)

Romanian		demenţã (craziness, distraction, insanity, madness, madwoman), nebunie (craze, craziness, distraction, Folly, foolery, foolishness, frenzy, hobby, insanity, lunacy, madness, mania, mischief, phrensy, raving). (various references)

Russian		сумасшествие (craziness, derangement, distraction, insaneity, insanity, madness). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		demencija, izlapelost. (various references)

Spanish		demencia (craziness, insanity, madness, mental disorder). (various references)

Swedish		demens (intellectual dementia). (various references)

Turkish		kişilik bölünmesi, bunaklık (caducity, dotage, second childhood, senility), akıl hastalığı (mental alienation, mental case, mental disease). (various references)

Ukranian		недоумство (amentia, cretinism, fatuity, feeble-mindedness), набуте слабоумство, захоплення (admiration, applause, capture, catch, delight, ecstasy, encroachment, enthusiasm, grab, gust, hold, interest, mania, occupation, pre emption, rapture), божевілля (alienation, frenzy, insanity, lunacy, madness, phrensy). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "dementia": demential, dementias. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Dementia" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: demantis, demencia, demenia, demenshia, demensia, dementiae, demential, demention, demestica, Demetriou, demintia, derevnia, Devendra, diementia, Dimatima, Dimattia, dimentia, disentia, dmentia, dymentia, Hementin. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "dementia" (pronounced di'me"nshēu)
3	-sh ē u	cassia, minutia, minutiae, Quassia.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-i-m-n-t"
	-1 letter: etamine, matinee, mediant, mediate.
	-2 letters: aedine, aidmen, anteed, daimen, demean, dement, detain, emetin, endite, etamin, ideate, inmate, itemed, maiden, mantid, meanie, meated, mediae, median, medina, minted, tamein, tandem, teamed, teniae.
	-3 letters: adeem, admen, admit, aimed, amend, ament, amide, amine, anime, anted, demit, denim, diene, eaten, edema, emend, enate, enema, entia, maned, mated, matin.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-i-m-n-t"
	+1 letter: alimented, amnestied, deaminate, demential, dementias, geminated.
	+2 letters: advisement, deaminated, deaminates, delaminate, denominate, derailment, detainment, eliminated, emendating, emendation, endometria, germinated, magnetised, magnetized, manifested, medicament, myelinated, nematicide, nematocide, pedimental, reanimated, terminated, unmediated.
	+3 letters: abridgement, advisements, antependium, cinematized, delaminated, delaminates, demagnetize, denominated, denominates, derailments, detainments, determinacy, determinant, determinate, detrainment, detrimental, disablement, disseminate, edutainment, emancipated, emendations, endometrial, ethionamide, eudaemonist, impedimenta, impregnated, inseminated, manifestoed, medicaments, mendacities, nematicides, nematocides, pentamidine, predicament, predominate, reimplanted, remediating, remediation, renominated, sedimentary, streamlined, unmedicated.
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

44 65 6D 65 6E 74 69 61

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000100 01100101 01101101 01100101 01101110 01110100 01101001 01100001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#101 &#109 &#101 &#110 &#116 &#105 &#97

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0065 006D 0065 006E 0074 0069 0061

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
dementia	2,017	information on dementia	12
dementia and alzheimers	138	sign of dementia	11
vascular dementia	113	parkinsons dementia	11
lewy body dementia	103	dementia type	10
dementia domino	84	dementia in the elderly	10
senile dementia	68	age dementia symptom	9
dementia symptom	52	dementia senile symptom	9
death dementia	50	dementia estrogen	9
multi infarct dementia	38	dementia hiv	9
dementia care	25	art dementia	9
alcoholic dementia	25	dementia frontal temporal	9
dementia treatment	18	dementia disease parkinsons	8
frontal lobe dementia	17	aids dementia	8
stage of dementia	17	dementia 13	8
dementia hrt	17	dementia hormone replacement therapy	7
alcohol dementia	17	dementia elderly	7
dementia medication	15	stroke dementia	7
hiv associated dementia	13	body dementia lewey	7
cause of dementia	13	definition dementia	7
activity for dementia	13	dementia support group	7
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Dementia

Definition: Dementia

Dementia

Noun

Specialty Definitions: Dementia

Specialty Definition: Dementia

Synonym: Dementia

Synonyms within Context: Dementia

Insanity

Crosswords: Dementia

Modern Usage: Dementia

Screenplays

Movie/TV Titles

Commercial Usage: Dementia

References

Books

Periodicals

Theater & Movies

Music

High Tech

Photo Album: Dementia

Non-Fiction Usage: Dementia

Usage Frequency: Dementia

Expression: Dementia

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Dementia

dementia

information on dementia

dementia and alzheimers

sign of dementia

vascular dementia

parkinsons dementia

lewy body dementia

dementia type

dementia domino

dementia in the elderly

senile dementia

age dementia symptom

dementia symptom

dementia senile symptom

death dementia

dementia estrogen

multi infarct dementia

dementia hiv

dementia care

art dementia

alcoholic dementia

dementia frontal temporal

dementia treatment

dementia disease parkinsons

frontal lobe dementia

aids dementia

stage of dementia

dementia 13

dementia hrt

dementia hormone replacement therapy

alcohol dementia

dementia elderly

dementia medication

stroke dementia

hiv associated dementia

body dementia lewey

cause of dementia

definition dementia

activity for dementia

dementia support group

Modern Translations: Dementia

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