organic brain syndrome


organic brain syndrome

noun

Definition of ORGANIC BRAIN SYNDROME

: an acute or chronic mental dysfunction (as Alzheimer's disease) resulting chiefly from physical changes in brain structure and characterized especially by impaired cognition

First Known Use of ORGANIC BRAIN SYNDROME

1966

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