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Descriptor English:   Dementia 
Descriptor Spanish:   Demencia 
Descriptor Portuguese:   Demência 
Synonyms English:   Senile Paranoid Dementia  
Tree Number:   C10.228.140.380
F03.615.400
Definition English:   An acquired organic mental disorder with loss of intellectual abilities of sufficient severity to interfere with social or occupational functioning. The dysfunction is multifaceted and involves memory, behavior, personality, judgment, attention, spatial relations, language, abstract thought, and other executive functions. The intellectual decline is usually progressive, and initially spares the level of consciousness. 
See Related English:   Tauopathies
 
History Note English:   1981(1963) 
Allowable Qualifiers English:  
BL blood CF cerebrospinal fluid
CI chemically induced CL classification
CO complications DI diagnosis
DH diet therapy DT drug therapy
EC economics EN enzymology
EP epidemiology EH ethnology
ET etiology GE genetics
HI history IM immunology
ME metabolism MI microbiology
MO mortality NU nursing
PS parasitology PA pathology
PP physiopathology PC prevention & control
PX psychology RA radiography
RI radionuclide imaging RH rehabilitation
SU surgery TH therapy
US ultrasonography UR urine
VI virology  
Record Number:   3718 
Unique Identifier:   D003704 

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