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noun
A progressive neurological disease of alcohol use disorder or malnutrition, characterized by corpus callosum demyelination and necrosis and subsequent atrophy.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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Synonyms: MBD
Antonyms: none provided
History
First described in 1903 by the Italian pathologists Amico Bignami and Ettore Marchiafava.
