English noun: alcohol amnestic disorder | |||
1. | alcohol amnestic disorder (state) dementia observed during the last stages of severe chronic alcoholism; involves loss of memory for recent events although long term memory is intact | ||
Synonyms | alcoholic dementia, Korsakoff's psychosis, Korsakoff's syndrome, Korsakov's psychosis, Korsakov's syndrome, polyneuritic psychosis | ||
Broader (hypernym) | dementedness, dementia | ||