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Senile vs Dementia - What's the difference?

senile | dementia |

As an adjective senile

is of, or relating to old age.

As a noun dementia is

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.

senile

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of, or relating to old age.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author= Charles T. Ambrose
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  • (often, offensive) Exhibiting the deterioration in mind and body often accompanying old age; doddering.
  • Derived terms

    * senile dementia

    Anagrams

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    dementia

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (pathology) 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.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author= Charles T. Ambrose
  • , title= Alzheimer’s Disease , volume=101, issue=3, page=200, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=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.}}
  • Madness or insanity.
  • Derived terms

    * demented * demential * senile dementia

    See also

    * amentia * Alzheimer's disease * delirium ----