alcoholic psychosis
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noun
any of a group of major mental disorders, as delirium tremens, Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome, and hallucinosis, associated with organic brain injury due to alcohol.
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alcoholic psychosis
n.
Any of various psychoses that result from alcoholism and involve organic brain damage.
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