> Benzodiazepine
Domain: Treatment
Definition: Sedative medications that diminish withdrawal symptoms and/or anxiety.
> Breathalyser
Domain: Regulations, Law
Definition: Apparatus used to measure indirectly the presence of alcohol by analysing the breath expired by an individual.
Synonym: Breath alcohol levels
> Coma (alcoholic)
Domain: Clinical
Definition: A state of profound unconsciousness caused by alcohol intake.
> Consumption
Domain: Behaviour, Consumption
Definition: In alcohology, the action of consuming an alcoholic drink. In practice, it is better to distinguish the consumption of alcohol, which can be measured in "units", "glasses", grams per day, or grams per week, i.e. Quantity/Time, and blood alcohol concentration, which is the concentration expressed as grams per litre, i.e. Quantity/Volume.
> Craving
Domain: Behaviour, Consumption
Definition: Desire to consume a substance which incites an individual to behaviours thought capable of fulfilling a need, wish, desire for alcohol.
See also: Alcohol dependence, Behaviour, Hedonism, Dipsomania
> Degree of alcohol
Domain: Chemistry
Definition: Percentage volume of pure ethyl alcohol contained in a mixture formed exclusively of ethyl alcohol and water determined with the Gay-Lussac alcoholometer.
See also: Alcohol content, Ethanol
> Delirium tremens
Domain: Clinical psychiatric, Clinical somatic
Definition: Acute alcoholic delirium which can follow abrupt withdrawal from alcohol, whose appearance is often facilitated by an illness, surgery, trauma or dehydration.
> Dementia
Domain: Clinical psychiatric, Clinical somatic
Definition: Severe impairment of mental state involving memory and personality / emotional functioning.
> Drinker
Domain: Behaviour, Consumption
Definition: Someone who drinks
> Drunkenness
Domain: Clinical somatic
Definition: State of mental excitation and motor incoordination, which can progress to coma, and is due to the massive ingestion of alcoholic drinks.
Synonyms: Inebriety
