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    POLYNEURITIC PSYCHOSIS

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

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

    Synonyms:

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

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

    Hypernyms ("polyneuritic psychosis" is a kind of...):

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

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