dementia

英 [dɪˈmenʃə]

美 [dɪˈmenʃə]

n.  痴呆; 精神错乱

复数：dementias　

医学

Collins.1 / BNC.7441 / COCA.11181

牛津词典

noun

• 痴呆；精神错乱
  a serious mental disorder caused by brain disease or injury, that affects the ability to think, remember and behave normally

柯林斯词典

• 痴呆
  Dementiais a serious illness of the mind.

英英释义

noun

• mental deterioration of organic or functional origin
  Synonym:dementedness

双语例句

• Memory and language tests can reliably reveal "hidden" early dementia, say UK experts.
  英国专家称，记忆和语言测试可以可靠地显示“隐藏的”早期痴呆。
• Psychological counselling is all but nonexistent; insomnia, depression, dementia and suicide are all on the rise.
  心理咨询几乎不存在；失眠、抑郁症、痴呆和自杀都在增多。
• Objective: To estimate the incidence and relative risk of hip fracture among patients with dementia.
  研究目的：估计失智症患者髋关节骨折之发生率与相对风险。
• We'll need to do more studies to understand the relationship between depression and dementia.
  我们需要更多的研究来弄清楚抑郁和阿尔茨海默病之间的关系。
• Within the umbrella term 'dementia' there are many different kinds of disease.
  “痴呆”这一统称里包括多种不同的疾病。
• Objective To study Intellectual impairment comparison between the senile dementia and vascular dementia patients.
  目的方法研究比较老年性痴呆和血管性痴呆智能障碍的异同。
• Semantic dementia and fluent primary progressive aphasia: two sides of the same coin?
  词义性痴呆和流利的原发性进行性失语：同一硬币的两面？
• Even if your love one has dementia, it might not be alzheimer's.
  即使他们是有痴呆，那也不一定就是阿尔茨海默病。
• Although some studies have found an association between late-life hypertension and the development of dementia, others have not.
  尽管一些研究已发现晚年高血压与痴呆的发生之间存在关联，但另外一些研究却显示二者之间无关联。
• She is suffering from senile dementia.
  她患有老年痴呆症。