CH 19 Vocab

the ability to think logically and clearly.

• intervention

• cognition

• perseveration

• cognitive impairment

the loss of ability to think logically and clearly

the inability to think logically and clearly

• cognition

• rummaging

• anxiety

• confusion

a state of severe confusion that occurs suddenly and is usually temporary.

• dementia

• delirium

• degenerative

• delusions

a general term that refers to a serious, progressive loss of mental abilities such as thinking, remembering, reasoning, and communicating.

• dementia

• deliruim

• degenerative

• delirious

something that continually gets worse

continually gets worse, causes breakdown of the body systems

• progressive

• irreversible

• degenerative

• delirium

in medicine, the first appearance of the signs or symptoms of an illness.

• beginning

• duration

• terminal

• onset

unable to be reversed or returned to the original state.

• chronic

• irreversible

• acute

• intervention

a progressive, incurable disease that causes tangled nerve fibers and protein deposits to form in the brain, which eventually cause dementia.