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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024Wer′nick•e-Kor′sa•koff syn′drome (vâr′ni kə kôr′sə kôf′, -kof′),USA pronunciation - Psychiatry, Pathologya disorder of the central nervous system characterized by abnormal eye movements, incoordination, confusion, and impaired memory and learning functions, caused by thiamine deficiency, and observed in chronic alcoholism.
- named after German neurologist Karl Wernicke (1848–1905) and Russian psychiatrist Sergeĭ Sergeevich Korsakov (1854–1900), who independently described it 1965–70
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