vascular dementia

English

Noun

vascular dementia (countable and uncountable, plural vascular dementias)

1. (medicine) Dementia caused by problems in the blood supply to the brain, resulting from a cerebrovascular disease.
   • 2022, Maddie Mortimer, Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies, Picador, page 310:

     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.

Further reading

• “vascular dementia”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.