Sacred blue is a literal English equivalent of the French phrase sacrebleu. Specifically, the word combines the adjectives sacre (sacred) and bleu (blue). The phrase nevertheless functions somewhat as a curse which translates more politely as my God! or zounds!.
apathy - an absence of emotion or enthusiasm. 1  feeling - the experiencing of affective and emotional states; she had a feeling of euphoria; he had terrible feelings of guilt; I disliked him and the feeling was mutual.
Apathy early in the disease is more suggestive of vascular dementia because it usually occurs in the later stages of Alzheimer's dementia. Consequently, patients with vascular dementia tend to perform worse than their Alzheimer's disease counterparts in frontal lobe tasks, such as verbal fluency.