KORSAKOFF'S SYNDROME


Meaning of KORSAKOFF'S SYNDROME in English

[ 'kɔ:səkɒfs ]

■ noun Psychiatry a serious mental illness with loss of recent memory, typically the result of chronic alcoholism.

Origin

early 20th cent.: named after the Russian psychiatrist Sergei S. Korsakoff .

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