[ '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 .
[ '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 .
Concise Oxford English vocab. Сжатый оксфордский словарь английского языка. 2004