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Pick's Disease

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Noun

1. pick's disease

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

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Pick's Disease

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a condition characterized by progressive deterioration of the brain with atrophy of the cerebral cortex, esp. the frontal lobes, and evidenced in loss of memory and emotional instability

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Pick's Disease

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n.
A form of frontotemporal dementia characterized by the presence of Pick bodies in the nerve cells of the brain.
n.
Chronic constrictive pericarditis with ascites and enlargement of the liver. No longer in clinical use.

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