|Alzheimer's disease (ˈæltsˌhaɪməz)| |Often shortened to:
Alzheimer's a disorder of the brain resulting in a progressive
decline in intellectual and physical abilities and eventual
dementia| |[C20: named after A. Alzheimer (1864--1915), German
physician who first identified it]| |a calculus or concretion
found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp.
ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for
poison.| |a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some
typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the
exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and
interjection, as after a rhetorical question.| Alzheimer's
disease Alz·hei·mer's disease (älts'hī-mərz, ālts'-, ôlts'-) A
degenerative disease of the brain, characterized by clumps of
neurofibrils and microscopic brain lesions and by confusion,
disorientation, memory failure, and speech disturbances, and
resulting in progressive loss of mental capacity. |Alzheimer's
disease (äls'hī-mərz) Pronunciation Key A progre