Korsakoff's syndrome
/ˈkɔːsəkɔːfs/(亦作Korsakoff's psychosis)
noun
mass noun
- Psychiatry a serious mental illness, typically the result of chronic alcoholism, characterized by disorientation and a tendency to invent explanations to cover a loss of memory of recent events【精神病学】柯尔萨可夫氏综合征。
词源
early 20th cent.: named after Sergei S. Korsakoff （1854-1900）, Russian psychiatrist.