WormMine: DiseaseOntology DOID:8725 vascular dementia Disease Ontology

• Namespace: disease_ontology
• Obsolete: false
• Description: A dementia that involves impairments in cognitive function caused by problems in blood vessels that feed the brain.

1 Ontology

• Name: Disease Ontology

5 Parents

Identifier	Name	Description
DOID:4	disease	A disease is a disposition (i) to undergo pathological processes that (ii) exists in an organism because of one or more disorders in that organism.
DOID:150	disease of mental health	A disease that involves a psychological or behavioral pattern generally associated with subjective distress or disability that occurs in an individual, and which are not a part of normal development or culture.
DOID:1561	cognitive disorder	A disease of mental health that affects cognitive functions including memory processing, perception and problem solving.
DOID:1307	dementia	A cognitive disorder resulting from a loss of brain function affecting memory, thinking, language, judgement and behavior.
DOID:8725	vascular dementia	A dementia that involves impairments in cognitive function caused by problems in blood vessels that feed the brain.

4 Relations

Relationship	Parent Term . Identifier	Child Term . Identifier
is_a	DOID:1307	DOID:8725
is_a	DOID:4	DOID:8725
is_a	DOID:150	DOID:8725
is_a	DOID:1561	DOID:8725

3 Synonyms

• Name: Multi Infarct Dementia
• Type: synonym

• Name: multifocal dementia
• Type: synonym

• Name: DOID:13915
• Type: alt_id