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WERNICKE'S ENCEPHALOPATHY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Inflammatory degenerative disease of the brain caused by thiamine deficiency that is usually associated with alcoholism
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("Wernicke's encephalopathy" is a kind of...):
brain disease; brain disorder; encephalopathy (any disorder or disease of the brain)
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