- 1年邁糊塗的。台灣談病時多用「失智」，少用較刺耳的「痴呆」
In the sense meet most, senile means mentally confused or behaving in a strange way because of old age: forgetting names, mixing up the day, wandering, saying things that do not fit. It is an old medical-sounding adjective, and though actually doctors today more often say dementia, because senile has picked up a sting. People use it as a blunt label, and it can sound like a joke at someone’s expense. The older, broader meaning was simply ‘of old age’ (you still see senile in a few technical terms), but in ordinary English the word now points at the mind, not just grey hair. It is harsh in the mouth of a young person talking about a parent. If you need a kind, clear word for the illness, dementia is safer in English, and 失智 is safer in Taiwan.
組成Borrowed in the 1660s from French sénile, from Latin senīlis, ‘of old age’, from senex, ‘old man’, going back to a very old root meaning ‘old’.
同家族的字
- senescencesame Latin senex, ‘old’
- senatesame senex: a senate was first a council of elders
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
senileadj/ˈsiːnaɪl/
- 1
Of, or relating to old age.
- 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.
- 2
offensiveExhibiting the deterioration in mind and body often accompanying old age; doddering.
- Her mother was senile, but they called it dementia now.
senilenoun/ˈsiːnaɪl/
- 1
datedmedicinesciencesA person who is senile.
- Seniles differ markedly in their early adult intelligence level, and in their social, vocational, and educational histories.
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