Source : WordNet®

alcoholic dementia
     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: {alcohol
         amnestic disorder}, {Korsakoff's psychosis}, {Korsakoff's
         syndrome}, {Korsakov's psychosis}, {Korsakov's syndrome},
          {polyneuritic psychosis}]