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alcoholic dementia

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: 3.53 in modern English

Syllables
al-co-holic de-men-tia
IPA
27
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
5
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

n

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 Korsakoff's psychosis Korsakoff's syndrome Korsakov's psychosis Korsakov's syndrome polyneuritic psychosis

Questions

What does alcoholic dementia mean?
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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