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acute alcoholism

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acute alcoholism
n.

acute alcoholism,
intoxication resulting from excessive consumption of alcoholic beverages. The syndrome is temporary and is characterized by depression of the higher nerve centers, causing impaired motor control, stupor, lack of coordination, and often nausea, dehydration, headache, and other physical symptoms. Compare chronic alcoholism. See also alcoholism.


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Bob died at the age of 38, three months after John was born, of cirrhosis of the liver brought on by acute alcoholism.
Two decades ago Clapton was still coping with acute alcoholism and chronic drug addiction but decided to clean up his life.
And then my mother died of acute alcoholism on the street in Detroit, Michigan.
 
 
 
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