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語源

Borrowed from Latin dementia.

発音

• IPA: /dɪˈmɛnʃə/
• 韻: -ɛnʃə

名詞

dementia (usually uncountable, plural dementias or dementiae)

1. (pathology) A progressive decline in cognitive function due to damage or disease in the brain beyond what might be expected from normal aging. Areas particularly affected include memory, attention, judgement, language and problem solving.
   • 2013 May-June, Charles T. Ambrose, “Alzheimer’s Disease”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, page 200:

     Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems— […]. Such a slow-release device containing angiogenic factors could be placed on the pia mater covering the cerebral cortex and tested in persons with senile dementia in long term studies.

   • 2018 January 18, Jürgen Götz, “Why it’s so hard to treat dementia”, in CNN‎:

     In recent years some clinical trials involving potential dementia drugs have had disappointing setbacks.

2. Madness or insanity.

派生語

関連する語

• amentia
• demented
• demential

参考

• amentia
• Alzheimer's disease
• delirium

アナグラム

• Demetian, Mendaite, Mendieta, Tiedeman, matineed

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [deːˈmɛn.ti.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [deˈmɛn.t͡si.a]

名詞

dēmentia f (genitive dēmentiae); first declension

1. madness, insanity

語形変化

First-declension noun.

派生した語

形容詞

dēmentia

1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural of dēmēns

参照

• “dementia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “dementia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “dementia”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “dementia”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “dementia”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin