Preferred Label : dementia;
Definition : An acquired organic mental disorder with loss of intellectual abilities of sufficient
severity to interfere with social or occupational functioning. The dysfunction is
multifaceted and involves memory, behavior, personality, judgment, attention, spatial
relations, language, abstract thought, and other executive functions. The intellectual
decline is usually progressive, and initially spares the level of consciousness. [MeSH];
UMLS CUI (RADLEX) : C0497327;
Origin ID : RID5136;
UMLS CUI : C0497327;
Currated CISMeF NLP mapping
- dementia [Artificial nutrition thesaurus concept]
Semantic type(s)
UMLS correspondences (same concept)
An acquired organic mental disorder with loss of intellectual abilities of sufficient
severity to interfere with social or occupational functioning. The dysfunction is
multifaceted and involves memory, behavior, personality, judgment, attention, spatial
relations, language, abstract thought, and other executive functions. The intellectual
decline is usually progressive, and initially spares the level of consciousness. [MeSH]