dement

(de-ment’). A person affected with dementia (used often in comparison or contrast with ament). To deprive of mag- Gemented (de-men’ted). Deprived of reason. Gementia (de-men’she-ah) [L. de neg. + mens mind]. Insanity characterized by lo or serious impairment of intellect, will, and memory. acute @., a form which affects comparatively young persons and is often curable. nic d., dementia which may occur at any time of life and is incurable. epileptic d., insanity with mental deterioration, resulting from the long continuance of epilepsy. paralytic d., general ysis of the insane; paresis. d. para no’- ides, a form of adolescent insanity marked by paranoic delusions, developing rapidly and _terminating in a demented confusional condition. @. prse’cox, adolescent insanity, a term used to include a large range of mental disorders which occur in early life, and are marked by emotional in a characteristic mental weakne of an emoti nature. The term includes primary catatonia, and hebephrenia. Called also adolescent insanity. Pp dementia occurring independently of any other form of insanity.. 806- ondary d., dementia following and due to some other form of insanity. senile d., dementia from old age. tabetic d., that which sometimes follows tabes dorsal is. terminal d., dementia coming on as a final result of nervous or mental diseases. toxic d., that which is due to the exce ive use of some poisonous drug.