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ALCOHOLIC DEMENTIA

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Dictionary entry overview: What does alcoholic dementia mean?

• ALCOHOLIC DEMENTIA (noun)
The noun ALCOHOLIC DEMENTIA has 1 sense:

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

Familiarity information: ALCOHOLIC DEMENTIA used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• ALCOHOLIC DEMENTIA (noun)

Sense 1

alcoholic dementia ^{[BACK TO TOP]}

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

alcohol amnestic disorder; alcoholic dementia; Korsakoff's psychosis; Korsakoff's syndrome; Korsakov's psychosis; Korsakov's syndrome; polyneuritic psychosis

Hypernyms ("alcoholic dementia" is a kind of...):

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

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