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Wernicke's disease (medicine)


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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.