Pick's disease

Pick's disease
Pick's disease 'piks- also Pick disease 'pik- n a dementia marked by progressive impairment of intellect and judgment and transitory aphasia, caused by progressive atrophic changes of the cerebral cortex, and usu. commencing in late middle age
Pick Arnold (1851-1924)
Czechoslovakian psychiatrist and neurologist. Pick is best known for his description in 1892 of an atrophy of the cerebral cortex, now known as Pick's disease, and for his 1913 description of agrammatism.
Pick's disease n pericarditis with adherent pericardium resulting in circulatory disturbances with edema and ascites
Pick Friedel (1867-1926)
Czechoslovakian physician. Pick described the form of pericarditis that is now known as Pick's disease in 1896.

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a cause of dementia. The damage is mainly in the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain, in contrast with the diffuse degeneration of Alzheimer's disease.
A. Pick (1851-1924), Czech psychiatrist

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  • Pick's disease — [piks] n. [after A. Pick (1851 1924), Czech physician] a condition characterized by progressive deterioration of the brain with atrophy of the cerebral cortex, esp. the frontal lobes, and evidenced in loss of memory and emotional instability …   English World dictionary

  • Pick's disease — Infobox Disease Name = PAGENAME Caption = DiseasesDB = 10034 ICD10 = ICD10|G|31|0|g|30, ICD10|F|02|0|f|00 ICD9 = ICD9|331.11 ICDO = OMIM = 172700 MedlinePlus = eMedicineSubj = neuro eMedicineTopic = 311 MeshID = D020774 Pick’s disease, also known …   Wikipedia

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  • Pick's disease — a cause of dementia. The damage is mainly in the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain, in contrast with the diffuse degeneration of Alzheimer s disease. [A. Pick (1851–1924), Czech psychiatrist] …   The new mediacal dictionary

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  • Pick's disease — noun 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 • Hypernyms: ↑presenile… …   Useful english dictionary

  • Niemann-Pick cells disease — Nie·mann Pick cells, disease (neґmahn pikґ) [A. Niemann; Ludwig Pick, German physician, 1868–1944] see under cell and disease …   Medical dictionary

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