See Also: diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis(medicine)
hyperostosis, diffuse idiopathic skeletal(medicine)
Diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis(health)
Korsakoff(dictionary)
Korsakoff (as used in expressions)(encyclopedia)
Korsakoff syndrome(encyclopedia)
Korsakoff, Sergei(medicine)
Korsakoff's syndrome(medicine)
Korsakoff's psychosis(medicine)
Wernicke-Korsakoff encephalopathy(medicine)

Korsakoff syndrome (sh) and hyperostosis, diffuse idiopathic skeletal (medicine)


Korsakoff syndrome (sh)




or Korsakoff psychosis or Korsakoff disease

Neurological disorder marked by severe amnesia despite clear perception and full consciousness, resulting from chronic alcoholism, head injury, brain illness, or thiamin deficiency.

Persons with the syndrome typically cannot remember events in the recent or even immediate past; some retain memories only a few seconds. Longer periods
up to 20 years
may also be forgotten. Confabulation (recounting detailed, convincing "memories" of events that never happened) sometimes coexists with the syndrome, which may be transient or chronic.


hyperostosis, diffuse idiopathic skeletal (medicine)


hyperostosis, diffuse idiopathic skeletal


A disease of elderly men characterised by large osteophytes that bridge vertebrae and ossification of ligaments and tendon insertions.