Alcoholic psychosis
any of a group of major mental disorders, as delirium tremens, wernicke-korsakoff syndrome, and hallucinosis, -ssociated with organic brain injury due to alcohol.
alcoholic psychosis n.
any of various psychoses that result from alcoholism and involve organic brain damage.
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