[ US /dɪˈɫɪɹiəm/ ]
[ UK /dɪlˈɪɹi‍əm/ ]
NOUN
  1. a usually brief state of excitement and mental confusion often accompanied by hallucinations
  2. state of violent mental agitation
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How To Use delirium In A Sentence

  • However, the presentation of delirium is the same regardless of whether dementia is present because symptoms of delirium will dominate when they co-occur.
  • Your only comfort lay in the forced reflection, that, real as he looked, the poor caitiff was but imaginary, a bit of painted canvass, whom no delirium tremens, nor so much as a retributive headache, awaited, on the morrow.
  • Neurologic consultation can help establish a differential diagnosis in patients with delirium.
  • This, notwithstanding the dash of falsehood which may exist in “Werter” itself, and the boundless delirium of extravagance which it called forth in others, is a high praise which cannot justly be denied it. Criticism and Interpretation. By Thomas Carlyle
  • A man doesn't get delirium tremens even if he smokes more than is good for him; he doesn't become a debased mortal; there is nothing about tobacco which makes a man beat his wife or assault his mother-in-law -- rather the reverse, in fact, for tobacco is a soother and a quietener of the passions, and many a man, I daresay, has been prevented from doing rash things in the way of retaliation, when he has lit his pipe and had a good think over his affairs. The Social History of Smoking
  • Amid a spray of spilt drinks and nibbles, much cheering, dancing and backslapping, the unruly crowd vented their delirium in the manner of Indian cricket spectators, setting alight their match programs and letting off fireworks.
  • It is quite literally cultism delirium in my view. Scozzafava decries 'vicious' attacks
  • Secondary end points included prevalence and duration of delirium, use of fentanyl and open-label midazolam, and nursing assessments. JAMA current issue
  • Treatment of delirium requires use of neuroleptic drugs, such as haloperidol and chlorpromazine, not sedatives.
  • Christian's response was closured by a wild outcry from the wood, hounds and horn lifting up their voices together in sudden delirium. Mount Music
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