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Pick's disease

Pick's disease noun: a rare neurodegenerative disease that causes progressive destruction of nerve cells in the brain. Symptoms include aphasia and dementia.

Noun

Pick's disease (uncountable)

  1. A rare neurodegenerative disease that causes progressive destruction of nerve cells in the brain. Symptoms include aphasia and dementia.
    • Pick’s disease was like dementia for middle-aged people. Toward the end she couldn’t even speak or seem to understand anything anyone said to her.2024, Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars, Harvill Secker, page 127

Origin of Pick's disease

Named after Arnold Pick, psychiatry professor who first discovered and described the disease in 1892.

Questions about Pick's disease

What does Pick's disease mean?
Pick's disease means a rare neurodegenerative disease that causes progressive destruction of nerve cells in the brain. Symptoms include aphasia and dementia.
What part of speech is Pick's disease?
Pick's disease is a noun.

Words near Pick's disease in the dictionary

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