vascular dementia

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vascular dementia (countable and uncountable, plural vascular dementias)

  1. (medicine) Dementia caused by problems in the blood supply to the brain, resulting from a cerebrovascular disease.
    • 2022, Maddie Mortimer, Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies, Picador, page 310:
      He had been diagnosed with vascular dementia, and though the progression of the disease was relatively slow, he had developed tremors and seemed younger and younger as the months knocked on.

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