WERNICKE'S ENCEPHALOPATHY

Pronunciation (US):

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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

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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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