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delirium (s), deliria (pl)
1. Usually a brief state of excitement and mental confusion often accompanied by hallucinations.
2. A state of violent mental agitation marked by extreme restlessness, confusion, and sometimes hallucinations; which may be caused by fever, poisoning, or brain injury.
3. A temporary state of mental confusion, fluctuating consciousness, extreme excitement or emotion resulting from high fever, intoxication, shock, or other causes.

It is characterized by anxiety, disorientation, hallucinations, delusions, uncontrolled excitement or emotion, and incoherent speech.

4. Etymology: from Latin delirium, "madness"; from deliriare, "to be crazy, to rave"; literally, "to go off the furrow"; a plowing metaphor, from the phrase de-, "off, away" + lira, "the earth thrown up between two furrows, furrow".

Delirium tremens is Modern Latin, "trembling delirium"; introduced in 1813 by British physician Thomas Sutton, for "that form of delirium which is rendered worse by bleeding, but improved by opium."

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alcohol withdrawal delirium (s) (noun), alcohol withdrawal deliriums (or) deliria (pl)
An acute organic mental disorder resulting from a recent cessation or reduction in alcohol consumption with the essential characteristic being delirium: "Alcohol withdrawal delirium is an autonomic hyperactivity; that is, tachycardia (fast heart beat), sweating, and elevated blood pressure is also present. It was formerly called delirium tremens."

"Another characteristic of alcohol withdrawal delirium includes the DTs, 'the horrors', 'the shakes', or 'rum fits'; literally, 'shaking delirium' or 'trembling madness' (in Latin). It is an acute episode of delirium which is usually caused by withdrawal, or abstinence, from alcohol following habitual excessive drinking."

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posttraumatic delirium, post-traumatic delirium (s); post-traumatic deliriums, post-traumatic deliria (pl) (nouns)
Delirium caused by a structural traumatic brain injury.
traumatic delirium (s); traumatic deliriums, traumatic deliria (pl) (nouns)
1. That which follows severe head injury; superficially the patient is alert, but there is marked disorientation, memory defect, and confabulation.
2. A variety of delirium following injury; especially a head injury; possibly resulting in insanity, frenzy, madness, derangement, aberration, mania, lunacy, and fury.