organic brain syndrome
noun
: an acute or chronic mental dysfunction (such as Alzheimer's disease) resulting chiefly from physical changes in brain structure and characterized especially by impaired cognition
Word History
First Known Use
1966, in the meaning defined above
Medical Definition
organic brain syndrome
noun
: any acute or chronic mental dysfunction (as delirium or senile dementia) resulting chiefly from physical changes in brain structure and characterized especially by impaired cognition
called also organic brain disorder, organic mental syndrome