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dementiae

dementiae is the plural of dementia.

Meaning of dementia

Noun

dementia (usually uncountable, plural dementias or dementiae)

  1. (usually) 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.
    • 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.2013 May-June, Charles T. Ambrose, “Alzheimer’s Disease”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, page 200
  2. (usually) Madness or insanity.

Origin of dementiae

From Latin dēmentiae, plural of dēmentia.

Phrases with dementiae

Questions about dementiae

What is dementiae the plural of?
Dementiae is the plural of dementia.

Words near dementiae in the dictionary

  1. dementia infantilis
  2. dementia paralytica
  3. dementia praecox
  4. dementia precox
  5. dementia pugilistica
  6. dementiae
  7. dementiae praecoces
  8. demential
  9. dementialike
  10. dementias
  11. dementiated

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dementiae (page history and authors); dementia (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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