Pick's disease

/pɪks/
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Definitions of Pick's disease
  1. 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
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    type of:
    presenile dementia
    dementia with onset before the age of 65
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