alcohol amnestic disorder

Questions about alcohol amnestic disorder

What does alcohol amnestic disorder mean?

alcohol amnestic disorder means "dementia observed during the last stages of severe chronic alcoholism; involves loss of memory for recent events although long term memory is intact".

What is another word for alcohol amnestic disorder?

Close synonyms include alcoholic dementia, Korsakoff's psychosis, Korsakoff's syndrome, Korsakov's psychosis, Korsakov's syndrome. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is alcohol amnestic disorder a common word?

alcohol amnestic disorder is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.