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Definition of Confusional
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Confusional
1. Characterised by, or pertaining to, confusion. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Confusional
Literary usage of Confusional
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Dublin Journal of Medical Science (1890)
"Acute confusional insanity may be described as a condition of mental disturbance
of comparatively rapid ..."
2. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"(d: Acute Hallucinatory Confusion (Amentia, Acute Confusional Insanity, Acute
Hallucinosis) In various infections, intoxications, and states of exhaustion ..."
3. A Handbook of Psychology and Mental Disease: For Use in Training-schools for by Colonel Bell Burr (1914)
"... ACUTE Confusional INSANITY.—This condition is of sudden origin following
exhaustive illness. ..."
4. Transactions of the Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland by Academy of Medicine in Ireland (1890)
"ACUTE Confusional INSANITY. By CONOLLY NORMAN, Medical Superintendent, ...
Acute confusional insanity may be described as a condition of mental disturbance ..."
5. Mind and Its Disorders: A Text-book for Students and Practitioners by William Henry Butter Stoddart (1908)
"... jerking is commonly seen on extreme lateral deviation of the eyes. FIG.
48.—ANAESTHESIA IN A CASE or ACUTE Confusional INSANITY. ..."