- organic brain syndrome
- noun Date: 1966 an acute or chronic mental dysfunction (as Alzheimer's disease) resulting chiefly from physical changes in brain structure and characterized especially by impaired cognition
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organicbrain syndrome — organic brain syndrome n. Any of various disorders of cognition caused by permanent or temporary brain dysfunction and characterized especially by dementia. * * * … Universalium
