What's the difference between delirious and floccillation?

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.

Floccillation


Definition:

  • (n.) A delirious picking of bedclothes by a sick person, as if to pick off flocks of wool; carphology; -- an alarming symptom in acute diseases.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Picking at the bedclothes and at imaginary objects (carphology and floccillation) are characteristic, as is muscular twitching (subsultus tendinum).

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