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What does presenile mean?

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Adjective
  1. Before the onset of senility.
  2. Marked by the physical and mental characteristics of old age, though not old in years.
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Examples
Involutional melancholia and presenile dementias typically occur in late middle age, while senile and arteriosclerotic dementias are characteristic of the elderly.
Later, family death certificates would name meningitis, Economo's disease, presenile dementia, leukoencephalitis, alcoholic encephalopathy and ictus.
The two conditions of senile and presenile dementia cannot therefore be separated scientifically.
Earlier we have reported the effect of arecoline thiazolidinone and morpholino arecoline derivatives as muscarinic receptor 1 agonists in Alzheimer's presenile dementia models.
The use of an essential fatty acid or a physiologically acceptable salt thereof for the manufacture of a therapeutic agent for combatting presenile or senile dementia.

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