Word of the Day:
alcoholism
What It Means
A chronic disease caused by compulsive and uncontrollable consumption of alcoholic beverages, leading to addiction and deterioration in health and social functioning.
Acute alcohol poisoning.
struggle with alcoholism
Did You Know?
From alcohol + -ism. Derived from New Latin alcoholismus chronicus, coined by the Swedish professor of medicine Magnus Huss in 1849.
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