What's the difference between delirious and delusional?

Delirious


Definition:

  • (a.) Having a delirium; wandering in mind; light-headed; insane; raving; wild; as, a delirious patient; delirious fancies.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Bilateral temporal epilepsies involving the limbic system on the one hand, bilateral frontal epilepsies on the other one, and P.M. status which may be paralleled, make these patients more susceptible to acute mental confusions, to acute thymic disorders, to delirious attacks.
  • (2) There were no side-effects of the treatment and it was found easy to administer to toxic and delirious patients.
  • (3) Six patients developed transient delirious episodes during the first 10 postoperative days, three showed symptoms of considerable anxiety, and three developed social and behavioural problems during the convalescent period.
  • (4) Irritability, tremor, seizures and a delirious reaction.
  • (5) The coaching staff are happy because we’ve got a lot of teams we haven’t faced recently and there are a lot of delirious fans here because it is a fantastic fixture and I think the whole of Scotland and England will be looking forward to it.” Wales will have high hopes of reaching the finals for the first time since 1958.
  • (6) The author has analyzed the dynamics of these variants of the asthenic symptom complex to which, with the progression of the process, disturbances of the non-delirious hypochondria type are added.
  • (7) The medical record of these delirious patients was reviewed after discharge for evidence of delirium.
  • (8) This is a character deliriously doomed to repetitive self-indulgence.
  • (9) ICD-10 criteria identified only 30 patients as delirious.
  • (10) Khao Soi Khun Yai, Sri Poom Road, next to Wat Kuan Kama, Old City, North Moat; meal for two £1.60-£3 Warorot evening market Facebook Twitter Pinterest You could pick other food markets (Sompet, Thanin, Chiang Mai Gate, Chang Phuak Gate) and be as deliriously sated, but the night-time street food at Warorot remains special to me.
  • (11) For Sunderland, those moments ended with delirious scenes among their 9,000-strong following.
  • (12) An analysis of clinical manifestations of acute alcoholic hallucinosis over the considered 30 years has pointed to a transformation in the main psychopathological phenomena of psychosis as compared to their description in 1900-1931, characterized by changes in the ratio of the subject of verbal hallucinations and delirious ideas and an increase in the proportion of psychopathological phenomena which were not included in the number of constant manifestations of psychosis and occurred now and then.
  • (13) A differentiated approach to clinical and psychopathological analysis of acute delirious syndromes in schizophrenia is essential for adequate choice of medicosocial measures and epidemiologic investigations.
  • (14) Most frequent were sedation (17%), EEG alterations (16%), increase of liver enzymes (8%), hypotension (7%), hypersalivation (5%), fever (5%), ECG alterations (4%), tachycardia (3%), gastro-intestinal (3%) and delirious states (2%).
  • (15) In addition, MZC induced a slight delirious state with visual and auditory hallucinations at 8 mg in five of six subjects.
  • (16) The occurrence of cerebral seizures in alcoholics was investigated in case histories of 84 delirious and nondelirious male patients.
  • (17) Claudio Ranieri, hands in pockets and outwardly unconcerned, was unaware the final whistle had sounded at the end here while the delirious din of victory reverberated around this arena.
  • (18) Based on a series of known facts on clinical findings and changes in the metabolism of chronic alcoholics and delirious people the possible pathomechanism of cerebral imbalances is presented according to a synopsis.
  • (19) A case is presented in which a 68-year-old man became delirious after being withdrawn from a low dosage of alprazolam.
  • (20) Curative plasmapheresis was used in 10 critically burned patients at the stage of acute burn toxemia with the delirious syndrome with the unfavourable prognosis.

Delusional


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to delusions; as, delusional monomania.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Withdrawal from long-term treatment with benzodiazepines was followed in three patients by a severe delusional depression.
  • (2) The relationship of response to neuroleptic dose and desipramine plasma concentration was examined in 31 patients with unipolar delusional depression.
  • (3) Reports of violence associated with delusional misidentification are reviewed and four patients described who were either perpetrators or victims of assaults as a consequence of the syndromes of Frégoli, Intermetamorphosis, Subjective Doubles and Capgras.
  • (4) The results suggest that Cues, Pause, Point procedures may offer some potential for replacing delusional responding with appropriate responding to social stimuli.
  • (5) Techniques for assessing the existence of significant hallucinatory and delusional experiences in children are suggested.
  • (6) A mother and her son shared delusional beliefs that doubles of themselves existed and that they were being harassed by the police and social and educational services.
  • (7) Schizophrenics had decreased sleep continuity comparable to delusional depressives.
  • (8) The following differential signs were underlined: initial symptoms, such as rudimentary cenesthopathia, stable insomnia, etc., preceding the formation of delusions; appearance of episodic exacerbations in the form of short-time acute paranoiac states; a combination of paranoiac delusion with stable phasic affective disorders; unusual possession of delusional patients expressed in bizarre delusional behaviour, etc.
  • (9) The irrational motivations of refusal (particularly, denial and delusional ideation) have been evoked much more often then rational motivations (therapeutic inefficiency, secondary effects).
  • (10) The top Trump aide called Fields “totally delusional”, and the candidate suggested: “Perhaps she made the story up.
  • (11) The results indicate fair concordance between the two clinical approaches and the DIS with regard to the presence of any delusional or hallucination symptoms.
  • (12) Her husband shared in her beliefs but lost all delusional conviction after she was compulsorily admitted to a special hospital.
  • (13) Possible reasons for the consistence or non-consistence of delusional content are discussed.
  • (14) The longer the session went on, the greater the fears for Big Phil’s mental health became, for by now he was showing signs of delusional psychosis.
  • (15) 62 min: "People accusing Chelsea of negative tactics are completely delusional," writes Philip Podolsky.
  • (16) In variants nearer to shiftlike schizophrenia, the affective disorders in the framework of the attack gradually lose their intensity, while the hallucinatory delusional symptomatology acquires a tendency towards a systematization.
  • (17) So Deniker and Ginestet categorized neuroleptics on the basis of their behavioural efficacy and distinguished sedative neuroleptics from anti-delusional neuroleptics and anti-autistic neuroleptics.
  • (18) 4 types of delusional and hallucinatory experience with certain ensuing therapeutic reactions are distinguished: Type 1: pseudonormality and denial of delusions, type 2: overlapping of reality and delusion and frantic attempts to separate the two realms, type 3: hallucinatory absorption and trance-like states, type 4: dramatic delusional play and "happy" hallucinations in regressive psychoses.
  • (19) Delusional depressives had a higher total score than non-delusional depressives on Hamilton's Rating Scale for Depression, as well as a higher score for depressed mood and psychomotor retardation.
  • (20) Special attention is paid to psychopathology as well as to psychodynamic and semiotic aspects of the delusional illness.

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