# Pick's disease

> English word · Noun

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

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

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
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