Pick's disease

English

Etymology

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

Noun

Pick's disease (uncountable)

  1. A rare neurodegenerative disease that causes progressive destruction of nerve cells in the brain. Symptoms include aphasia and dementia.
    • 2024, Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars, Harvill Secker, page 127:
      Pick’s disease was like dementia for middle-aged people. Toward the end she couldn’t even speak or seem to understand anything anyone said to her.
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