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Categories: Central nervous system disorders, Malnutrition, Alcohol and health, Vitamin deficiencies, Thiamine

Wernicke's encephalopathy Wernicke encephalopathy Wernicke's disease Wernickes Encephalopathy Wernicke’s encephalopathy

Inflammatory degenerative disease of the brain caused by thiamine deficiency that is usually associated with alcoholism WordNet 3.0

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Inflammatory degenerative disease of the brain caused by thiamine deficiency that is usually associated with alcoholism WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet

Wernicke encephalopathy, also Wernicke's encephalopathy, or wet brain is the presence of neurological symptoms caused by biochemical lesions of the central nervous system after exhaustion of B-vitamin reserves, in particular thiamine. Wikipedia

Human disease Wikidata

The presence of neurological symptoms — classically, ophthalmoplegia, ataxia and confusion — caused by biochemical lesions of the central nervous system after exhaustion of B-vitamin reserves, in particular thiamine. Wiktionary

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brain disorder

long-term effects of alcohol

thiamine deficiency

HAS KIND

alcoholic dementia

Wernicke–Korsakoff syndrome

DRUG USED FOR TREATMENT

vitamin B1

HEALTH SPECIALTY

neurology

NAMED AFTER