Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

vascular dementia

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.32 in modern English

Syllables: vas-cu-lar de-men-tia
IPA

24

Scrabble Score

16

Letters

5

Syllables

13

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Dementia caused by problems in the blood supply to the brain, resulting from a cerebrovascular disease.

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"He had been diagnosed with vascular dementia, and though the progression of the disease was relatively slow, he had developed tremors and seemed younger and younger as the months knocked on."

Usage

Inflected Forms

vascular dementias (plural)

Questions

What does vascular dementia mean?: Dementia caused by problems in the blood supply to the brain, resulting from a cerebrovascular disease.

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