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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.
Word Entries containing the term: “traumatic delirium
posttraumatic delirium, post-traumatic delirium (s); post-traumatic deliriums, post-traumatic deliria (pl) (nouns)
Delirium caused by a structural traumatic brain injury.