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comparative more senile, superlative most senile
Of, or relating to old age. quotations examples
Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems— […]. Such a slow-release device containing angiogenic factors could be placed on the pia mater covering the cerebral cortex and tested in persons with senile dementia in long term studies.
2013 May-June, Charles T. Ambrose, “Alzheimer’s Disease”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, page 200
(often offensive) Exhibiting the deterioration in mind and body often accompanying old age; doddering. quotations examples
Her mother was senile, but they called it dementia now.
2019, Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys, Fleet, page 183
plural seniles
(dated, medicine) A person who is senile. quotations examples
Seniles differ markedly in their early adult intelligence level, and in their social, vocational, and educational histories.
1979, Oscar J. Kaplan, Psychopathology of Aging, page 54