Mental deterioration of organic or functional origin

Usage examples of dementia.

Glancing back at the rest of the Elite Eight, Balthor could see they had finished off most of the dementia panthers and that Joha and Brue were rushing to help Tybiel.

Again, at the inn in a little mountain village, where we stopped for the night, mother, father, and every person in the house, to the number of nine, above the age of childhood was either goitrous or cretinous, dull of intelligence, mentally verging upon dementia in three cases, in two of which physical growth had been arrested at childhood.

And if the dementia becomes stronger or more persistent, the shock of an imaginary incident could actually cause Kes to die.

He could go into irreversible dementia and take the captain and Kes with him.

These wards were filled with derelicts: old women with dementia, impecunious veterans down on their luck, noseless men with tertiary syphilis and the like.

She was as scarred and scabrous as the guards outside, but the mad tumble of her eyes told of her profession: dementia summoner.

There were a dozen ways to reach dementia space, and Skellum explained them all in detail.

There were too many opponents for Skellum to find the footing he needed to go into dementia space, and having Fulla as a partner further distracted him.

FDG Positron Emission Tomography and other neuroimaging devices for suspected dementia.

However, while one focuses the attention on an unchanging object, there is the possibility of dementia setting in if one allows the potency of attentional vividness to wane.

At that time, if one does not continue striving to enhance the power of attentional vividness, one may fall into a complacent, pseudo-meditative trance, which may result in dementia.

At least the pandemic before throughout the Middle Ages were of folks spared dementia.

The unassociated waves of unrehearsed madmen, little children incensed with fury, a dementia, their parents disassociated with all normal social significance, forgetting and blanking out reason and sanity.

Given the stress of the dementia work-up, every organ system crumpled: in a domino progression the injection of radioactive dye for her brain scan shut down her kidneys, and the dye study of her kidneys overloaded her heart, and the medication for her heart made her vomit, which altered her electrolyte balance in a life-threatening way, which increased her dementia and shut down her bowel, which made her eligible for the bowel run, the cleanout for which dehydrated her and really shut down her tormented kidneys, which led to infection, the need for dialysis, and big-time complications of these big-time diseases.

FDG Positron Emission Tomography and other neuroimaging devices for suspected dementia.