(n.) A state in which the thoughts, expressions, and actions are wild, irregular, and incoherent; mental aberration; a roving or wandering of the mind, -- usually dependent on a fever or some other disease, and so distinguished from mania, or madness.
(n.) Strong excitement; wild enthusiasm; madness.
Example Sentences:
(1) The clinical picture was characterized by hallucinations and delirium.
(2) Forty five elderly patients undergoing total hip replacements were assessed one day before and two days after surgery in order to explore the relationship between pre-operative anxiety and post-operative delirium.
(3) Delirium on emergence from anesthesia was not encountered.
(4) The delirium improved when the treatment was restored, whereas neuroleptics proved ineffective.
(5) At site 1, 10 patients with and 20 without delirium participated; at site 2, 16 patients with and 10 without delirium participated.
(6) The activation of epileptogenic activity in the treatment of delirium tremens by etomidate long-term-infusions and the lack of international experience in this field do not support the use of etomidate as an anticonvulsive agent.
(7) In particular after removal of Lorazepam or Bromazepam in 58 cases withdrawal symptoms appeared, among them seven times delirium and six times epileptic seizures (grand mal).
(8) Common alcohol-related complications requiring treatment include: (1) clinicopathologic disorders, often associated with the gastroenterologic or cardiorespiratory systems, including alcoholic cirrhosis, (2) peripheral myoneural effects, (3) neuropsychiatric complications (delirium tremens, acute alcoholic hallucinosis, Korsakoff's psychosis, alcoholic dementia), and (4) psychosocial disability.
(9) Delirium is fostered by sensory overload (or deprivation) in the recovery room and intensive care unit, and by staff tension.
(10) Cameron has suggested that nocturnal delirium was based on an inability to maintain a spatial image without the assistance of repeated visualization.
(11) The delirium was not affected by administration of alprazolam.
(12) Reported is a case of postanesthetic delirium in a healthy young man.
(13) The results of uncontrolled studies, in which the period of the delirium tremens was reduced and the intensity was lowered significantly by aprotininum, could not be verified in our double-blind study.
(14) Research workers have analysed 92 cases of acute delirium in their country and have tried to bring out of their studies the particular aspects which are sources of many diagnostical errors: --factors which cause anxiety and lead to depressive states in Europe, but which destroy quickly the consciousness of some personalities still to be defined in Madagascar; --poor delirium in the tropics with little or no reaction at all makes the diagnostic very difficult.
(15) Interestingly, the overall incidence of delirium was identical in both groups (28.5%).
(16) Nonetheless, these factors or conditions may contribute to the development or symptom presentation of a delirium when other metabolic or toxic etiologies are present.
(17) The administration of homatropine eye-drops precipitated several episodes of delirium in a 69-year-old woman.
(18) During the past ten years, treatment of delirium alcoholicum was almost exclusively by means of chlormethiazol (distraneurin), an agent which has sedative, hypnotic, and antiepileptic effects.
(19) Finally we suggest that investigation of biochemical abnormalities in delirium may prove to be a model for clarifying the role of neurotransmitters in functional psychiatric illnesses.
(20) These long-term changes in neuronal excitability might relate to the progression of alcohol withdrawal symptoms from tremor to seizures and delirium tremens, as well as the alcoholic personality changes between episodes of withdrawal.
Hysteria
Definition:
(n.) A nervous affection, occurring almost exclusively in women, in which the emotional and reflex excitability is exaggerated, and the will power correspondingly diminished, so that the patient loses control over the emotions, becomes the victim of imaginary sensations, and often falls into paroxism or fits.
Example Sentences:
(1) It’s as though the nation is in the grip of an hysteria that would make Joseph McCarthy proud.
(2) High score on the hysteria scale of Middlesex Hospital Questionnaire was a risk indicator for all kinds of back pain.
(3) However, the test by itself should not be construed as an unequivocal measure of hysteria as defined psychologically by the MMPI.
(4) In depression neurosis, neurasthenia and anxiety neurosis the scale 2 (D) increases dominantly; in hysteria, the scale 3 (HY); in hypochondria, the scale 1 (HS); in phobic and compulsion neurosis, the scale 7.
(5) Based on the Middlesex Hospital Questionnaire, the levels of anxiety, phobia, psychosomatic complaints, depression and hysteria were significantly higher for the traditional ward group.
(6) It is argued that Western science reductionist approaches to the classification of "mass hysteria" treat it as an entity to be discovered transculturally, and in their self-fulfilling search for universals systematically exclude what does not fit within the autonomous parameters of its Western-biased culture model, exemplifying what Kleinman (1977) terms a "category fallacy."
(7) On the Minnesota multiphasic personality inventory, they scored high on the depression, hysteria, psychopathic deviate, and paranoia scales, and they scored low on the masculinity-feminity scale.
(8) Hysteria was commonly seen during adolescence (73.2%) and in males (63.2%).
(9) We cannot as a centre-right party be drawn into the hubris and hysteria of populism that demands total withdrawal from Europe while ignoring the obvious dangers of such action and spurning the opportunity for reform that lies ahead of us.
(10) She also hit out at “scaremongering” by media commentators in the wake of the attack, insisting that it was “very irresponsible” to whip up “mass hysteria” about the dangers of the internet.
(11) Finally, the effect of social stress on symptoms such as cannibalism, gastric ulcers and avian hysteria is discussed.
(12) There were 54 cases of somaticised anxiety (brain fag); 22 cases of depressive neurosis characterised by hypochondriasis, cognitive complaints, and culturally determined paranoid ideation; 23 cases of 'hysteria' in the form of dissociative states, pseudoseizures and fugues; and 39 cases of brief reactive psychosis which differed from the dissociative states more in duration and intensity than in form.
(13) A non cardiovascular origin was present in 22% of patients: intoxication (7), hysteria (5), hypoxemia (3), vasovagal (2), gastrointestinal bleeding (2) and 2 others.
(14) The biological clock hysteria, with its image of a time bomb lodged in each and every woman’s ovaries, made each woman personally responsible for dealing with that handicap.
(15) The patient can be best understood from the abnormal sick role and the communication models of hysteria.
(16) Seventy patients presenting symptoms of hysteria (49 women and 21 men) were selected among patients observed at the Institute Minkowska during the year.
(17) Other MMPI results were that 36% scored above normal on the hysteria scale, 27% were quite anxious, and 24% were above average on the schizophrenia scale.
(18) Not of the hysteria of the rightwing media, but the very opposite.
(19) This article reports on the phenomenon of contagious hysteria in a village in West Bengal.
(20) Of 167 patients referred to a unit treating severe behaviour disorders after brain injury, 54 showed clinical features closely resembling those of gross hysteria as described by Charcot.