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Dementia (medicine) and subscript (iou)


Dementia (medicine)


dementia
<neurology, psychiatry> An organic mental disorder characterised by a General loss of intellectual abilities involving impairment of memory, judgment and abstract thinking as well as changes in personality.

It does not include loss of intellectual functioning caused by clouding of consciousness (as in delirium) nor that caused by depression or Other functional mental disorder (pseudodementia). Dementia may be caused by a large number of conditions, some reversible and some progressive, that cause widespread cerebral and damage or dysfunction. The most common cause is Alzheimer's disease, others are cerebrovascular disease (multi infarct dementia), central nervous system infection, brain trauma or tumours, pernicious anaemia, folic acid deficiency, Wernicke Korsakoff syndrome, normal pressure hydrocephalus, and, neurological diseases such as Huntington disease, multiple sclerosis and Parkinson's disease.

Origin: L. Mens = mind


subscript (iou)



subscript noun, adjective, & verb. E18.
[Latin subscript- pa. ppl stem of subscribere SUBSCRIBE.]
A. noun.
That which is written underneath; a passage, note, etc. at the bottom or end of a document etc.; a signature. E18.
a. A character, number, or symbol written or printed below (and usu. to the right of) a letter, number, etc., or below the line. E20.
b. Computing. A symbol (notionally written as a subscript but in practice usually not) used in a program, alone or with others, to specify one of the elements of an array. M20.
b. adjective. Written or printed underneath, esp. below the line; of or pertaining to a subscript; spec. in Math. etc., (of a symbol) written below and usu. to the right of another symbol. L19.
iota subscript: see IOTA 1.
C. verb.
verb trans. Provide or label with a subscript; write as a subscript. M20.
verb intrans. Use or write a subscript. M20.
? Cf. SUPERSCRIPT.
subscripted adjective having a subscript, provided with a subscript; spec. in Computing, specified out of an array by a subscript or subscripts: M20.