Pick's disease

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Etymology[edit]

Named after Arnold Pick, psychiatry professor who first discovered and described the disease in 1892.

Noun[edit]

Pick's disease (uncountable)

  1. A rare neurodegenerative disease that causes progressive destruction of nerve cells in the brain. Symptoms include aphasia and dementia.