wernicke's encephalopathy

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   inflammatory degenerative disease of the brain caused by thiamine deficiency that is usually associated with alcoholism

   Broaderbrain disorder

Questions about wernicke's encephalopathy

What does wernicke's encephalopathy mean?

wernicke's encephalopathy means "inflammatory degenerative disease of the brain caused by thiamine deficiency that is usually associated with alcoholism".

Is wernicke's encephalopathy a common word?

wernicke's encephalopathy 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.