KORSAKOFF'S SYNDROME

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 I. (noun) 

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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

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Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("Korsakoff's syndrome" is a kind of...):

dementedness; dementia (mental deterioration of organic or functional origin)

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