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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

Literary usage of Delirium

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology: Including Many of the Principal by James Mark Baldwin (1901)
"That form in which the patient is relatively inactive and maintains a low muttering is termed ' quiet ' delirium, while that accompanied by violence and ..."

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)
"In infectious diseases, delirium may appear at the beginning (initial delirium), ... These various forms of delirium are most often met with in typhoid, ..."

3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1870)
"delirium, Dr. P. observed in his 100 cases, only 12 times during the ... Neither the duration of the delirium, observed during the height of the fever, ..."

4. A Treatise on Medical Jurisprudence by Francis Wharton, Moreton Stillé (1860)
"In this point of view, febrile delirium and the delirium of madness are the same, ... Things, unfortunately, do not pass so when the delirium has a tendency ..."

5. Organizations by James G. March, Herbert Alexander Simon (1878)
"it is often In the treatment of Traumatic delirium (p. 135), the surgeon must keep in mind ... The symptoms of Traumatic delirium are very much those of ..."

6. Études sur la Queste del saint graal attribuée à Gautier Map by Albert Pauphilet, Colonel Bell Burr, Ernst Ziegler, Douglas Symmers (1921)
"Infection Psychoses.1 Under the infection psychoses are included the delirium of fever, the delirium directly due to infection, and the morbid mental states ..."

7. Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology: Including Many of the Principal by James Mark Baldwin (1901)
"That form in which the patient is relatively inactive and maintains a low muttering is termed ' quiet ' delirium, while that accompanied by violence and ..."

8. Medical lexicon by Robley Dunglison (1860)
"delirium nervosum. DELI ¡IE DBS PERSECUTIONS. Mania, io which the morbid hallucination is, that the individual is persecuted. DÉLIRE TRAUMATIQUE, delirium ..."

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