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Example sentences for: senility

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Largely ignoring Trent Lott--good advice for all--many News Quiz participants assumed that shorthand for Ronald Reagan is senility, and shorthand for Steve Martin is the old arrow through the head bit, which he performed back when he was still--oh, cruel, cruel participants!
The devastating and untreatable effects of senility and of these two types of dementia excite horror and pity.
Popular and medical use of dementia first associated it with senility but since World War II has linked it predominantly with the type first described by Alois Alzheimer in 1907.
Among its findings: People don't get crankier as they get older, at least half of senior citizens have no heart problems at all, and senility is not inevitable.
A NYT editorial offers an original angle: The general senility of Arab leaders (average age about 70) means that King Hussein's death could "herald the beginning of a traumatic changing of the guard across the Arab world."