PICK'S DISEASE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Pick's disease mean? 

• PICK'S DISEASE (noun)
  The noun PICK'S DISEASE has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: PICK'S DISEASE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PICK'S DISEASE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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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Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("Pick's disease" is a kind of...):

presenile dementia (dementia with onset before the age of 65)