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dementias

dementias 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.

Phrases with dementias

Questions about dementias

What is dementias the plural of?
Dementias is the plural of dementia.

Words near dementias in the dictionary

  1. dementia pugilistica
  2. dementiae
  3. dementiae praecoces
  4. demential
  5. dementialike
  6. dementias
  7. dementiated
  8. dementing
  9. dementive
  10. dementor
  11. dementors

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dementias (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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