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Senile plaque

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senile plaque
n.
A spherical mass of amyloid fibrils surrounded by distorted interwoven neuronal processes, found in the cerebral cortex in Alzheimer's disease. Also called neuritic plaque.

Senile plaque
—Structures composed of parts of neurons surrounding brain proteins called beta-amyloid deposits found in the brains of people with AD.
Mentioned in: Alzheimer's Disease

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