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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An acute encephalopathy caused by a deficiency of thiamine usually associated with chronic alcoholism and marked by loss of muscular coordination, abnormal eye movements, and disorientation.
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- noun inflammatory degenerative disease of the brain caused by thiamine deficiency that is usually associated with alcoholism
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[After Karl Wernicke, (1848–1905), German neurologist.]
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