阿尔茨海默氏症

ā ěr cí hǎi mò shì zhèng

Alzheimer's disease

ā

abbr. for country names that begin with 阿[a1]: Algeria 阿爾及利亞|阿尔及利亚[A1 er3 ji2 li4 ya4], Afghanistan 阿富汗[A1 fu4 han4] etc

ěr

thus

to thatch (a roof)

hǎi

ocean

silent

shì

(bound form) family name; surname (as in 王氏[Wang2 shi4] "the Wang clan")

zhèng

disease