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Dementedness   Listen
noun
dementedness  n.  Mental deterioration of organic or functional origin.
Synonyms: dementia.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Dementedness" Quotes from Famous Books



... a cup full of the drink; and when he hath been bathed, smear with the salve thoroughly, and when it is better with him, then work him a strong purgative drink," which is duly particularized. It is unnecessary to give more of these quaint prescriptions, one of which is a drink "against a devil and dementedness" (an illustration, by the way, how the one idea ran into the other); those which I have given will suffice to show the kind of pharmacopoeia in use, with the Saxon monk-doctor, for madness. But did their treatment consist ...
— Chapters in the History of the Insane in the British Isles • Daniel Hack Tuke



Words linked to "Dementedness" :   senile dementia, Korsakov's psychosis, alcoholic dementia, Korsakoff's syndrome, Korsakov's syndrome, dementia



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