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しょうたいがたにんしょう 小体型認知症
Noun
1. dementia with Lewy bodies; DLB; Lewy body dementia; LBDMedicine
Wikipedia definition
2. Dementia with Lewy bodiesDementia with Lewy bodies (DLB), also known under a variety of other names including Lewy body dementia, diffuse Lewy body disease, cortical Lewy body disease, and senile dementia of Lewy type, is a type of dementia closely allied to both Alzheimers and Parkinson's Diseases. It is characterized anatomically by the presence of Lewy bodies, clumps of alpha-synuclein and ubiquitin protein in neurons, detectable in post-mortem brain histology.
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