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7 dictionary results for: delirium

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de·lir·i·um

[di-leer-ee-uh

m] Pronunciation Key

–noun, plural -lir·i·ums, -lir·i·a

[-leer-ee-uh] Pronunciation Key.

1.	Pathology. a more or less temporary disorder of the mental faculties, as in fevers, disturbances of consciousness, or intoxication, characterized by restlessness, excitement, delusions, hallucinations, etc.

2.	a state of violent excitement or emotion.

[Origin: 1590–1600; < L délīrium frenzy, equiv. to délīr(āre) (see deliration) + -ium -ium

]

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de·lir·i·um (dĭ-lîr'ē-əm) Pronunciation Key
n. pl. de·lir·i·ums or de·lir·i·a (-ē-ə)

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.

[Latin dēlīrium, from dēlīrāre, to be deranged : dē-, de- + līra, furrow; see leis-¹ in Indo-European roots.]

de·lir'i·ant adj.

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delirium

1599, from L. delirium "madness," from deliriare "be crazy, rave," lit. "go off the furrow," a plowing metaphor, from phrase de lire (de "off, away" + lira "furrow"). Delirium tremens is Mod.L., "trembling delirium," introduced 1813 by British physician Thomas Sutton, for "that form of delirium which is rendered worse by bleeding, but improved by opium. By Rayer and subsequent writers it has been almost exclusively applied to delirium resulting from the abuse of alcohol" [Sydenham Society Lexicon of Medicine].

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delirium
noun
1.	state of violent mental agitation [syn: craze]
2.	a usually brief state of excitement and mental confusion often accompanied by hallucinations

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delirium de·lir·i·um (dĭ-lēr'ē-əm)
n. de·lir·i·ums or de·lir·i·a (-ē-ə)
A temporary state of mental confusion resulting from high fever, intoxication, shock, or other causes, and characterized by anxiety, disorientation, memory impairment, hallucinations, trembling, and incoherent speech.

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Delirium
An embedding coordinate language for parallel programming, implemented on Sequent Symmetry, Cray, BBN Butterfly.
["Parallel Programming with Coordination Structures", S. Lucco et al, 18th POPL, pp.197-208 (1991)].

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Delirium

De*lir"i*um\, n. [L., fr. delirare to rave, to wander in mind, prop., to go out of the furrow in plowing; de- + lira furrow, track; perh. akin to G. geleise track, rut, and E. last to endure.]

1. (Med.) 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.

2. Strong excitement; wild enthusiasm; madness.

The popular delirium [of the French Revolution] at first caught his enthusiastic mind. --W. Irving.

The delirium of the preceding session (of Parliament). --Morley.

Delirium tremens. [L., trembling delirium] (Med.), a violent delirium induced by the excessive and prolonged use of intoxicating liquors.

Traumatic delirium (Med.), a variety of delirium following injury.

Syn: Insanity; frenzy; madness; derangement; aberration; mania; lunacy; fury. See Insanity.

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