DELIRIUM
\dɪlˈɪɹi͡əm], \dɪlˈɪɹiəm], \d_ɪ_l_ˈɪ_ɹ_iə_m]\
Definitions of DELIRIUM
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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Strong excitement; wild enthusiasm; madness.
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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.
By Oddity Software
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Strong excitement; wild enthusiasm; madness.
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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.
By Noah Webster.
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A disorder characterized by CONFUSION; inattentiveness; disorientation; ILLUSIONS; HALLUCINATIONS; agitation; and in some instances autonomic nervous system overactivity. It may result from toxic/metabolic conditions or structural brain lesions. (From Adams et al., Principles of Neurology, 6th ed, pp411-2)
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By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William R. Warner
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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from de, 'from,' and lira, 'a ridge between two furrows'[?]: more probably from de, and 'a silly saying or action.' Paracope, Phrenitis, Phledonia, Desipientia, Aphrosyne, Paralerema, Paralercsis, Paralogia, Phantasia, Paraphrosyne, Emotio,Leros, Paranaea, Allophasis, Deliratio, Delirameutum, (Sc.) Ravery, Roving, (F.) Delire, Egarement desprit, &c., Transport, Ideosynchysie. Straying from the rules of reason; wandering of the mind. Hippocrates used the word mania, for delirium sine febre, and the Greek words given above for delirium cum febre. In different authors, also, we find the words, Paraphora, Paaphrotes, Paraphrenesis, Paraphrenia, Phrenesis, Phrenetiasis, &c., for different kinds of delirium. Delirium is usually symptomatic.
By Robley Dunglison
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Disordered mental state with excitement and illusions.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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A state of mental excitement characterized by restlessness, incoherence of speech, and various sensory illusions. It occurs in many psychoses or in consequence of alcoholic or other poisoning, fever, severe injuries, etc.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
