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ALCOHOLIC DEMENTIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Dementia observed during the last stages of severe chronic alcoholism; involves loss of memory for recent events although long term memory is intact
Synonyms:
alcohol amnestic disorder; alcoholic dementia; Korsakoff's psychosis; Korsakoff's syndrome; Korsakov's psychosis; Korsakov's syndrome; polyneuritic psychosis
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("alcoholic dementia" is a kind of...):
dementedness; dementia (mental deterioration of organic or functional origin)