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amentia

[ey-men-shuh, uh-men-] / eɪˈmɛn ʃə, əˈmɛn- /


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The former are labouring under dementia, not amentia.

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Illegitimacy is, however, the larger problem in rural amentia.

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Cretinism is a form of amentia, which is endemic in certain districts, especially in some of the valleys of Switzerland, Savoy, and France.

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Binswanger states that tuberculosis, aside from miliary tuberculosis or meningitis, produces no mental disorder except phenomena of the amentia of exhaustion.

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In dementia the mental aberration does not occur until the mind has become fully developed, thus differing from amentia, which is congenital or comes on very early in life.

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