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vascular dementia

vascular dementia noun: dementia caused by problems in the blood supply to the brain, resulting from a cerebrovascular disease.

Noun

vascular dementia (countable and uncountable, plural vascular dementias)

  1. Dementia caused by problems in the blood supply to the brain, resulting from a cerebrovascular disease.
    • He had been diagnosed with vascular dementia, and though the progression of the disease was relatively slow, he had developed tremors and seemed younger and younger as the months knocked on.2022, Maddie Mortimer, Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies, Picador, page 310

Forms of vascular dementia

pluralvascular dementias

Questions about vascular dementia

What does vascular dementia mean?
Vascular dementia means dementia caused by problems in the blood supply to the brain, resulting from a cerebrovascular disease.
What part of speech is vascular dementia?
Vascular dementia is a noun.
What is the plural of vascular dementia?
The plural of vascular dementia is vascular dementias.

Words near vascular dementia in the dictionary

  1. Vascons
  2. vascula
  3. vascular
  4. vascular bundle
  5. vascular bundles
  6. vascular dementia
  7. vascular dementias
  8. vascular endothelial growth factor
  9. vascular endothelial growth factors
  10. vascular plant
  11. vascular plants

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