Definitions for Delirium
dɪˈlɪər i əm; -ˈlɪər i ədelir·i·um

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. craze, delirium, frenzy, fury, hysterianoun

   state of violent mental agitation

2. deliriumnoun

   a usually brief state of excitement and mental confusion often accompanied by hallucinations

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1. deliriumnoun

   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.

2. Etymology: From the delirium, from deliro.

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1. DELIRIUMnoun

   Alienation of mind; dotage.

   Etymology: Latin.

   Too great alacrity and promptness in answering, especially in persons naturally of another temper, is a sign of an approaching delirium; and in a feverish delirium there is a small inflammation of the brain. John Arbuthnot, on Diet.

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1. Delirium

   Delirium (historically acute confusional state, a nonspecific term that is now discouraged) is a specific state of acute confusion attributable to the direct physiological consequence of a medical condition, effects of a psychoactive substance, or multiple causes, and it usually develops over the course of hours to days. As a syndrome, delirium presents with disturbances in attention, awareness, and higher-order cognition. Patients with delirium may experience other neuropsychiatric disturbances, including changes in psychomotor activity (e.g. hyperactive, hypoactive, or mixed level of activity), disrupted sleep-wake cycle, emotional disturbances, and perceptual disturbances (e.g. hallucinations and delusions), although these features are not required for diagnosis. Diagnostically, delirium encompasses both the syndrome of acute confusion and its underlying organic process known as an acute encephalopathy. The cause of delirium may be either a disease process inside the brain or a process outside the brain that nonetheless affects the brain. Delirium may be the result of an underlying medical condition (e.g., infection or hypoxia), side effect of a medication, substance intoxication (e.g., opioids or hallucinogenic deliriants), substance withdrawal (e.g., alcohol or sedatives), or from multiple factors affecting one's overall health (e.g., malnutrition, pain, etc.). In contrast, the emotional and behavioral features due to primary psychiatric disorders (e.g., as in schizophrenia, bipolar disorder) do not meet the diagnostic criteria for 'delirium.'Delirium may be difficult to diagnose without first establishing a person's usual mental function or 'cognitive baseline'. Delirium can be confused with multiple psychiatric disorders or chronic organic brain syndromes because of many overlapping signs and symptoms in common with dementia, depression, psychosis, etc. Delirium may occur in persons with existing mental illness, baseline intellectual disability, or dementia, entirely unrelated to any of these conditions. Treatment of delirium requires identifying and managing the underlying causes, managing delirium symptoms, and reducing the risk of complications. In some cases, temporary or symptomatic treatments are used to comfort the person or to facilitate other care (e.g., preventing people from pulling out a breathing tube). Antipsychotics are not supported for the treatment or prevention of delirium among those who are in hospital; however, they may be used in cases where a patient has distressing experiences such as hallucinations or if the patient poses a danger to themselves or others. When delirium is caused by alcohol or sedative-hypnotic withdrawal, benzodiazepines are typically used as a treatment. There is evidence that the risk of delirium in hospitalized people can be reduced by non-pharmacological care bundles (see Delirium § Prevention). According to the text of DSM-5-TR, although delirium affects only 1-2% of the overall population, 18-35% of adults presenting to the hospital will have delirium, and delirium will occur in 29-65% of hospitalized patients. Delirium occurs in 11-51% of older adults after surgery, in 81% of those in the ICU, and in 20-22% of individuals in nursing homes or post-acute care settings. Among those requiring critical care, delirium is a risk factor for death within the next year.

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1. delirium

   Delirium is a sudden disruption in the mental functioning marked by confusion, decreased awareness of the environment, difficulty focusing, paying attention, and thinking clearly. It can also involve memory problems and hallucinations. It may be triggered by serious physical or mental ailments, and is often temporary and reversible. It can, however, have long-term effects if not treated promptly.

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1. Deliriumnoun

   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. Deliriumnoun

   strong excitement; wild enthusiasm; madness

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1. Delirium

   Delirium, or acute confusional state, is a syndrome that presents as severe confusion and disorientation, developing with relatively rapid onset and fluctuating in intensity. It is a syndrome which occurs more frequently in people in their later years. Delirium represents an organically caused decline from a previously-attained baseline level of cognitive function. It is typified by fluctuating course, attentional deficits and generalized severe disorganization of behavior. It typically involves other cognitive deficits, changes in arousal, perceptual deficits, altered sleep-wake cycle, and psychotic features such as hallucinations and delusions. Delirium itself is not a disease, but rather a clinical syndrome, which result from an underlying disease, from medications administered during treatment of that disease in a critical phase, from a new problem with mentation or from varying combinations of two or more of these factors. It is a corollary of the criteria that a diagnosis of delirium cannot be made without a previous assessment, or knowledge, of the affected person's baseline level of cognitive function. In other words, a mentally disabled or demented person who is operating at their own baseline level of mental ability would be expected to appear delirious without a baseline mental functional status against which to compare.

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1. Delirium

   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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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Delirium in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Delirium in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of Delirium in a Sentence

1. Walter Dunn .:

   Even clinicians would have a difficult time diagnosing an excited delirium, when you employ ketamine you better be darn sure that this is excited delirium and not something else.

2. Aakriti Gupta:

   COVID-19 patients can be intubated for two to three weeks ; a quarter require ventilators for 30 or more days, these are very prolonged intubations, and patients need a lot of sedation. ' ICU delirium' was a well-known condition before COVID, and the hallucinations may be less an effect of the virus and more an effect of the prolonged sedation.

3. Joanna Naples-Mitchell:

   For example, where has excited delirium come up, and trying to understand why it is they are finding what seems to have been the case so far, that it's majority Black men and other people of color this term is being attributed to ? and is it exclusively in the context of law enforcement where this term is coming up ? Is it exclusively in the context of restraints being used that this comes up and deaths are attributed to excited delirium ? There's a lot that legislators can do to really leverage their powers as investigators to look at this and bring public attention to it more broadly.

4. Andrew Lerman:

   She knows where she is, who she is -- she's as sharp as a tack, usually, when somebody comes out of a coma like that, they say that the patients have delirium where they're very confused. From day one, she hasn't experienced any of that.

5. Zaha Hadid:

   Architects are crazy. We do all-nighters, we used to do five nights no sleep, you are very exhausted so there's a bit of delirium sets in.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=Delirium
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Delirium
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=Delirium
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delirium
5. ^ ChatGPT
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6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Delirium
7. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=Delirium