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alcohol amnestic disorder

noun · 1 sense

dementia observed during the last stages of severe chronic alcoholism; involves loss of memory for recent events although long term memory is intact

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Synonyms

alcoholic dementia, korsakoff's psychosis, korsakoff's syndrome, korsakov's psychosis, korsakov's syndrome, polyneuritic psychosis

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