Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

pick's disease

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.68 in modern English

Syllables: pick-'s dis-ease
IPA

21

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"Pick’s disease was like dementia for middle-aged people. Toward the end she couldn’t even speak or seem to understand anything anyone said to her."

Etymology

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

Usage

Uncountable

Questions

What does pick's disease mean?: A rare neurodegenerative disease that causes progressive destruction of nerve cells in the brain. Symptoms include aphasia and dementia.
Where does pick's disease come from?: Named after Arnold Pick, psychiatry professor who first discovered and described the disease in 1892.

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