(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.
Drunkard
Definition:
(n.) One who habitually drinks strong liquors immoderately; one whose habit it is to get drunk; a toper; a sot.
Example Sentences:
(1) To crush any residual affinity for the monarchy, British propaganda against Thibaw “went into high gear”, said Thant Mtint-U, painting the monarch as an ogre, despot and drunkard.
(2) Then last week Erdogan defended his anti-alcohol legislation by obliquely calling Ataturk and his closest ally, Ismet Inonu, a couple of "drunkards".
(3) Their politicians dance like drunkards along the cliff's edge of default.
(4) Many of the practices and beliefs of the Washingtonian Total Abstinence Movement were adopted by reformatory homes for "drunkards" that were established in Boston, Chicago and Philadelphia in the mid-1800s.
(5) During her trial, which cost £100,000, Sherwood spent 20 hours in the witness box defending herself against accusations of being a liar, a drunkard and a bad mother.
(6) The leader of Karachi’s dominant political party has been accused by a respected former mayor of being an Indian agent and a dictatorial drunkard who has mismanaged the affairs of Pakistan’s biggest city from his base in north London.
(7) Society's reactions towards these perceived "alcoholics" are class specific: the lower classes are identified as "drunkards" and dealt with through public welfare and control, while the middle and upper classes as well as the newly appearing women alcoholics, are perceived as being ill and sent for medical or psychiatric treatment.
(8) He paid as much attention to the floorboards or the tangle of buddleia in the yard below as he would to a woman's belly, Leigh Bowery's feminine bulk, Bruce Bernard's stoic drunkard's poise, Lord Goodman's vanity, Sue the Benefits Supervisor's affected boredom.
(9) You can feel her curves beneath you as you move, and if you’re still you can feel her sway and vibrate like a drunkard.
(10) "Mergers of equals tend to be the two drunkards being propped up by the lamp-post.
(11) Received wisdom pours out the usual litany: random mutations, catastrophic mass extinctions and other mega-disasters, super-virulent microbes all ensure that the drunkard's walk is a linear process in comparison to the ceaseless lurching seen in the history of life.
(12) By contrast, North, the priest and “establishment humanitarian” character (tellingly also a “confirmed drunkard”, or by today’s lax standards, a hipster epicure) fails in his pledge to save Kirkland from the lash.
(13) Eschewing the conventional two-handed mode, he instead came out with one fist like a drunkard windmilling at a rival in an alley.
(14) Gambling away his savings, Grant – a "clever bloke" who thinks he can only be happy in English exile – becomes trapped among the kind of chauvinistic, philistine drunkards he affects to despise, yet slowly he begins to emulate them.
(15) The reparative changes in neurons and interneuronal connections revealed suppose possible reversibility of the morphological changes observed in the offspring of drunkards.
(16) Something Chevening has always lacked, as far as I’m aware, is an Isis flag in an upstairs window, a drunkard shouting rape threats on the doorstep and a skinhead breeding pit bulls in the basement.
(17) At around 11 o'clock on a Sunday night just over two weeks ago, Ram Singh, a 33-year-old school bus driver known as a troublesome drunkard, and his younger brother Mukesh headed back down the narrow lanes to the squalid one-bedroom brick home where they had spent the afternoon drinking.
(18) Finally, penalties for drunkards, including loss of salvation, are proportionally more frequent and comprehensive in the New Testament.
(19) A higher level of cells with a changed number of chromosomes in leucocyte blood culture of chronic alcohol users (drunkards) and spermatogency cells of alcoholized rats has been noticed.
(20) As with cinema later, many of these versions were freely, even crazily inventive – an Urdu Hamlet interspersed with songs and a comic subplot where the prince murders a rival for Ophelia's hand; a version of Measure for Measure with Isabella cast as a Muslim avenger, and Angelo as a drunkard.