See Also: Wernicke's disease(medicine)
Wernicke(dictionary)
Wernicke's zone(medicine)
Wernicke's aphasia(health)
Wernicke's area(medicine)
wernicke's aphasia(medicine)
Wernicke's encephalopathy(medicine)
Wernicke's field(medicine)
Wernicke, Karl(medicine)
Wernicke's sign(medicine)

stern-wheel (iou) and Wernicke's disease (medicine)


stern-wheel (iou)



stern-wheel noun & verb. E19.
[from STERN noun2 + WHEEL noun.]
A. noun. A paddle-wheel positioned at the stern of a small river or lake steamer. E19.
attrib.: M. Twain You kick up the water like a stern-wheel boat.
b. verb intrans. Of a boat: move by the agency of a stern-wheel. E19.
sternwheeler noun a boat propelled by a stern-wheel M19.

Wernicke's disease (medicine)


Wernicke's disease -->
Wernicke's syndrome
<syndrome> A condition frequently encountered in chronic alcoholics, largely due to thiamin deficiency and characterised by disturbances in ocular motility, pupillary alterations, nystagmus, and ataxia with tremors; an organic-toxic psychosis is often an associated finding, and Korsakoff's syndrome often coexists; characteristic cellular pathology found in several areas of the brain.

Synonym: superior haemorrhagic polioencephalitis, Wernicke's disease, Wernicke's encephalopathy.