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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A condition of progressive dementia caused by atrophy of the cerebral cortex, usually beginning in late middle age.
- noun A condition caused by constrictive pericarditis, characterized by inflammation of the peritoneum and pleura and by ascites, edema, and chronic congestion of the liver.
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- noun a progressive form of presenile dementia found most often in middle-aged and elderly women and characterized by degeneration of the frontal and temporal lobes with loss of intellectual ability and transitory aphasia
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[After Arnold Pick, (1851–1924), Moravian-born Austrian psychiatrist and neurologist.]
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[After Friedel Pick, (1867–1926), Prague-born Austrian physician.]
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