> Alcohol
Domain: Chemistry
Definition: Organic compound containing a OH (hydroxyl) group bound to an aliphatic or cyclanic chain.
> Alcoholaemia
Domain: Biology, Legislation, Law
Definition: Presence of alcohol, particularly ethanol, in the blood.
Synonyms: Ethanolaemia, Blood alcohol level, Blood alcohol concentration
See also: Breathalyser
> Alcohol Content
Domain: Chemistry
Definition: Percentage, as volume of pure ethyl alcohol, contained in an alcoholic drink. An alcoholic drink is defined by its alcohol content. The specific weight of alcohol is 0.8. Alcohol specialists often express alcohol consumption in "units" or "glasses", believing that the alcohol content of the different drinks consumed in cafés a glass of red or white wine, a half of beer, a measure of pastis or whisky, or a small glass of calvados or rum contains approximately 10 g pure alcohol (see Figure below).
> Alcohol dependence
Domain: Behaviour, Consumption, Clinical psychiatric, Clinical somatic
Definition: Need to consume alcohol-containing drinks since stopping would result in psychological discomfort and/or physical problems.
Synonym: Alcohol addiction
> Alcohol exposure
Domain: Behaviour, Consumption, Clinical somatic
Definition:
1. Action of allowing ethanol to enter the body.
2. Result of this action.
> Alcoholic morbidity
Domain: Clinical psychiatric, Clinical somatic
Definition: Prevalence of subjects intoxicated with alcohol in a given population.
> Alcoholic mortality
Domain: Clinical psychiatric, Clinical-somatic
Definition: Frequency of deaths due to alcohol intoxication in a given population. Alcoholic mortality rate: relationship between deaths and alcohol intoxication in a given population followed over a period of time.
> Alcoholics anonymous (AA)
Domain: Social action, Therapy
Definition: Name of an association of individuals regarded as alcoholics who seek to reinforce their abstinence by looking after non abstinent alcoholics.
> Alcoholisation
Domain: Behaviour, Consumption
Definition:
1. In a chemical sense, the formation or introduction of alcohol into a substance which does not contain any or contains insufficient amounts.
2. In man, any consumption of alcohol by an individual or group. NB. The term alcoholisation is not commonly used in English, where the term "alcohol exposure" or "alcohol consumption" is preferable.
Synonyms: Consumption
> Alcoholism
Domain: Behaviour, Consumption, Sociology
Definition:
1. Any use of an alcoholic drink which causes harm to an individual, society, or to the two together (Jellinek).
2. Loss of liberty to refrain from drinking alcohol (Fouquet).
3. All of the complications induced by the pathogenic consumption of alcohol.
4. Daily consumption of alcohol above levels which the body can oxidise in 24 hours (Simonin).
Synonyms: Alcohol-related problem, Alcohol-related disability: the term alcoholism is only used for individuals who are alcohol dependent.
> Alcohology
Definition: Discipline concerned with all that is involved in the relationship between man and ethanol throughout the world: production, storage, distribution, consumption along with the implications of this phenomenon, causes and consequences, either at the National and International level: social, economic and legal; or at the individual level: spiritual, psychological and somatic.
> Alcoholometer
Domain: Chemistry
Definition: Hydrometer used to determine by immersion the alcoholic degree or ethanol content of a liquid.
Synonyms: Alcometer, Alcohometer, Centesimal alcoholometer
