Source : WordNet®

alcohol amnestic disorder
     n : dementia observed during the last stages of severe chronic
         alcoholism; involves loss of memory for recent events
         although long term memory is intact [syn: {alcoholic
         dementia}, {Korsakoff's psychosis}, {Korsakoff's syndrome},
          {Korsakov's psychosis}, {Korsakov's syndrome}, {polyneuritic
         psychosis}]