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Definition of Alcoholic dementia
1. Noun. Dementia observed during the last stages of severe chronic alcoholism; involves loss of memory for recent events although long term memory is intact.
Generic synonyms: Dementedness, Dementia
Lexicographical Neighbors of Alcoholic Dementia
Literary usage of Alcoholic dementia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1900)
"Simple alcoholic dementia. alcoholic dementia with systematized delusions ...
Lead dementia again resembles alcoholic dementia in that it presents forms ..."
2. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1916)
"... determined diagnoses is of interest. In the case books the diagnoses were as
follows: Paresis? 3; paresis or alcoholic dementia, 2; paresis or dementia ..."
3. A Clinical Manual of Mental Diseases by Francis Xavier Dercum (1917)
"MENTAL DISEASE RELATED TO SOMATIC AFFECTIONS alcoholic dementia Mental impairment
... It was at one time the habit to speak loosely of alcoholic dementia as ..."
4. A Clinical Manual of Mental Diseases by Francis Xavier Dercum (1917)
"MENTAL DISEASE RELATED TO SOMATIC AFFECTIONS alcoholic dementia Mental impairment
... It was at one time the habit to speak loosely of alcoholic dementia as ..."
5. Nervous and Mental Disease Monograph Series (1908)
"In alcoholic dementia, as indeed in the other more chronic forms of alcoholic
psychosis which imperceptibly ..."
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