English Explanatory Dictionary

Pick's disease

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A rare neurodegenerative disease that causes progressive destruction of nerve cells in the brain. Symptoms include aphasia and dementia.

Word forms

Pick's disease

Etymology

Named after Arnold Pick, psychiatry professor who first discovered and described the disease in 1892.

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