Pick's disease
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Pick's disease — piks also Pick disease pik n a dementia marked by progressive impairment of intellect and judgment and transitory aphasia, caused by progressive atrophic changes of the cerebral cortex, and usu. commencing in late middle age Pick Arnold (1851… … Medical dictionary
Pick's disease — [piks] n. [after A. Pick (1851 1924), Czech physician] 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 … English World dictionary
Pick's disease — Infobox Disease Name = PAGENAME Caption = DiseasesDB = 10034 ICD10 = ICD10|G|31|0|g|30, ICD10|F|02|0|f|00 ICD9 = ICD9|331.11 ICDO = OMIM = 172700 MedlinePlus = eMedicineSubj = neuro eMedicineTopic = 311 MeshID = D020774 Pick’s disease, also known … Wikipedia
Pick cells disease — (pik) [Ludwig Pick, German physician, 1868–1935] see under cell, and see Niemann Pick disease, under disease … Medical dictionary
Pick bodies disease — (pik) [Arnold Pick, Czechoslovakian psychiatrist, 1851–1924] see under body and disease (def. 1) … Medical dictionary
Pick's disease — a cause of dementia. The damage is mainly in the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain, in contrast with the diffuse degeneration of Alzheimer s disease. [A. Pick (1851–1924), Czech psychiatrist] … The new mediacal dictionary
Pick&’s disease — Rare neurodegenerative disease similar in clinical symptoms to Alzheimer&’s disease. Affects mostly frontal and temporal lobes … Dictionary of molecular biology
Pick’s disease — brain disorder characterized by loss of memory and speech … Eponyms, nicknames, and geographical games
Pick's disease — 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 • Hypernyms: ↑presenile… … Useful english dictionary
Niemann-Pick cells disease — Nie·mann Pick cells, disease (neґmahn pikґ) [A. Niemann; Ludwig Pick, German physician, 1868–1944] see under cell and disease … Medical dictionary
