| Pick's disease |
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
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| Pick's disease |
A form of dementia characterized by a slowly progressive deterioration of social skills and changes in personality leading to impairment of intellect, memory, and language. [CancerWEB]
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| Pick's bodies, disease |
see under body and disease (def. 1).
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| Pick's d. |
1. [Arnold Pick] a rare progressive degenerative disease of the brain very similar in clinical manifestations and course to Alzheimer's disease but having a distinctive histopathology; cortical atrophy is confined to the frontal and temporal lobes; degenerating neurons contain globular intracytoplasmic filamentous inclusions (Pick bodies). Called also circumscribed cerebral atrophy. 2. [Ludwig Pick] Niemann-Pick d.
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| Pick's testicular a. |
androblastoma (def. 1).
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