See Also: ustilaginism(medicine)

dementia (iou) and ustilaginism (medicine)


dementia (iou)



dementia noun. L18.
[Latin, from demens: see DEMENT verb, -IA1.]
1. Psychiatry. Chronic mental and emotional deterioration caused by organic brain disease; a form or case of this. L18.
dementia praecox = SCHIZOPHRENIA. senile dementia: see SENILE adjective 1.
Madness, folly. L19.

ustilaginism (medicine)


ustilaginism
Poisoning by Ustilago maydis (corn smut), which produces burning, itching, hyperaemia, acrocyanosis, and oedema of the extremities; resembles ergotism, pellagra, or infantile acrocynia.