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Definition of Delirium

1. Noun. State of violent mental agitation.

2. Noun. A usually brief state of excitement and mental confusion often accompanied by hallucinations.

Definition of Delirium

1. n. A state in which the thoughts, expressions, and actions are wild, irregular, and incoherent; mental aberration; a roving or wandering of the mind, -- usually dependent on a fever or some other disease, and so distinguished from mania, or madness.

Definition of Delirium

1. Noun. A temporary mental state with a sudden onset, usually reversible, including symptoms of confusion, inability to concentrate, disorientation, anxiety, and sometimes hallucinations. Causes can include dehydration, drug intoxication, and severe infection. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Delirium

1. wild excitement [n -IUMS or -IA]

Medical Definition of Delirium

1. An acute, reversible organic mental disorder characterised by reduced ability to maintain attention to external stimuli and disorganised thinking as manifested by rambling, irrelevant or incoherent speech. There are also a reduced level of consciousness, sensory misperceptions, disturbance of the sleep wakefulness cycle and level of psychomotor activity, disorientation to time, place or person and memory impairment. Delirium may be caused by a large number of conditions resulting in derangement of cerebral metabolism, including systemic infection, poisoning, drug intoxication or withdrawal, seizures or head trauma and metabolic disturbances such as hypoxia, hypoglycaemia, fluid, electrolyte or acid base imbalances or hepatic or renal failure. Synonym: acute confusional state, acute brain syndrome. Origin: L. Lira = furrow or track, i.e., off the track (13 Nov 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Delirium

delirament deliraments delirancy deliration delirations deliria deliriant deliriants delirifacient delirifacients

delirious delirious shock deliriously deliriousness deliriousnesses delirium (current term) delirium cordis delirium mussitans delirium tremens deliriums

delis delish delist delistable delisted delisting delistings delists delit delitescence

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