Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun korsakov's_syndrome

1 sense of korsakov's syndrome

Sense 1
alcoholic dementia, alcohol amnestic disorder, Korsakoff's psychosis, Korsakoff's syndrome, Korsakov's psychosis, Korsakov's syndrome, polyneuritic psychosis -- (dementia observed during the last stages of severe chronic alcoholism; involves loss of memory for recent events although long term memory is intact)
       => dementia, dementedness -- (mental deterioration of organic or functional origin)