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Definitions of delirium in various dictionaries:
noun - state of violent mental agitation
noun - a usually brief state of excitement and mental confusion often accompanied by hallucinations
A temporary state of mental confusion and clouded consciousness resulting from high fever, intoxication, shock, or other causes.
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| This temporary state of mental confusion is often caused by fever or intoxication |
| Tremens is one type of this confused state |
| A state of mental confusion |
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| an acutely disturbed state of mind characterized by restlessness, illusions, and incoherence, occurring in intoxication, fever, and other disorders. |
| An acutely disturbed state of mind characterized by restlessness, illusions, and incoherence, occurring in intoxication, fever, and other disorders. |
| A temporary state of mental confusion and fluctuating consciousness resulting from high fever, intoxication, shock, or other causes. It is characterized by anxiety, disorientation, hallucinations, delusions, and incoherent speech. |
| A state of uncontrolled excitement or emotion: sports fans in delirium after their team's victory. |
| a usually brief state of excitement and mental confusion often accompanied by hallucinations |
| state of violent mental agitation |
| a state of being unable to think or speak clearly because of fever or mental confusion: |
| a state of extreme excitement or happiness: |
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Delirium, also known as acute confusional state, is an organically caused decline from a previously baseline level of mental function. It often varies in severity over a short period of time, and includes attentional deficits, and disorganization of behavior. It typically involves other cognitive deficits, changes in arousal (hyperactive, hypoactive, or mixed), perceptual deficits, altered sleep-wake cycle, and psychotic features such as hallucinations and delusions. Delirium itself is not a disease, but rather a set of symptoms. * It may result from an underlying disease, over-consumption of alcohol, from drugs administered during treatment of a disease, withdrawal from drugs or from any number of health factors. Delirium may be caused by a disease process outside the brain that nonetheless affects the brain, such as infection (urinary tract infection, pneumonia) or drug effects, particularly anticholinergics or other CNS depressants (benzodiazepines and opioids). Although hallucination |