(n.) The act of hallucinating; a wandering of the mind; error; mistake; a blunder.
(n.) The perception of objects which have no reality, or of sensations which have no corresponding external cause, arising from disorder or the nervous system, as in delirium tremens; delusion.
Example Sentences:
(1) The clinical picture was characterized by hallucinations and delirium.
(2) Adverse effects included nausea, light-headedness, dyskinesias, and hallucinations, all of which abated after the Sinemet dose was reduced.
(3) Cocaine produces simple hallucinations, PCP can produce complex hallucinations analogous to a paranoid psychosis, while LSD produces a combination of hallucinations, pseudohallucinations and illusions.
(4) In traditional Western psychiatric theory, seeing or hearing things that other people do not think are there could be termed a hallucination which is often considered indicative of underlying psychopathology.
(5) The observed psychiatric symptoms were classified into two categories: simple, including incidents of confusion alone or hallucinations with preserved insight, and complex, including delusions or chronic confusion without preserved insight.
(6) The probability of hallucinations was associated with the severity of cognitive dysfunction, the degree of other behavioral disturbances, and the presence of extrapyramidal signs.
(7) This was generally mild and always fully reversible and consisted mainly of forgetfulness, occasionally hallucinations, nightmares and somnolence.
(8) Schizophrenia is a severe psychiatric disorder characterized by onset in young adulthood, the occurrence of hallucinations and delusions, and the development of enduring psychosocial disability.
(9) Improved assessments of hallucinating patients are recommended, with exploration of subtleties in the hallucinatory experience; and factors needing assessment are identified.
(10) Within the primitive maternal transference, borborygmi are often accompaniments to the fantasy or the hallucination of being fed by the analyst.
(11) These data indicate that hallucinations (i.e., believed-in imaginings) can be elicited from a minority of "norman" subjects with brief instructions.
(12) Intravenous injection of naloxone (in most cases 4.0 mg) induced a reduction of psychotic symptomatology (especially hallucinations) in the majority of patients.
(13) Is voice search really going to catch on, or is it some sort of consensual hallucination by the tech industry?
(14) Hallucinations of ocular origin, however, are easily diagnosed by a thorough eye examination.
(15) The clinical picture is near-monthly recurrence of episodes of stupor or excitement lasting about 1 or 2 weeks, which are accompanied by delusion and in some cases also by hallucinations or confusion.
(16) A case study is presented of the effects of wearing an ear-plug in a single patient with persistent auditory hallucinations.
(17) Following the presentation of this underdiagnosed clinical phenomenon we propose that musical hallucinations should be addressed as a final outcome of several factors including both mental and physical components.
(18) Social isolation did not affect the incidence of hallucination, nor was it related to the incidence of known depressive illness.
(19) The results indicate fair concordance between the two clinical approaches and the DIS with regard to the presence of any delusional or hallucination symptoms.
(20) Moreau de Tours's classical studies about haschisch had pointed out to a rich symptomatology: visual and auditive hallucinations preceded by the "primordial effect": "the dissociation of ideas".
Mistake
Definition:
(v. t.) To make or form amiss; to spoil in making.
(v. t.) To take or choose wrongly.
(v. t.) To take in a wrong sense; to misunderstand misapprehend, or misconceive; as, to mistake a remark; to mistake one's meaning.
(v. t.) To substitute in thought or perception; as, to mistake one person for another.
(v. t.) To have a wrong idea of in respect of character, qualities, etc.; to misjudge.
(v. i.) To err in knowledge, perception, opinion, or judgment; to commit an unintentional error.
(n.) An apprehending wrongly; a misconception; a misunderstanding; a fault in opinion or judgment; an unintentional error of conduct.
(n.) Misconception, error, which when non-negligent may be ground for rescinding a contract, or for refusing to perform it.
Example Sentences:
(1) Based upon the analysis of 1015 case records of patients, aged 16-70, with different hip joint pathology types, carried out during 1985-1990, there were revealed mistakes and complications after reconstructive-restorative operations.
(2) But to treat a mistake as an automatic disqualification for advancement – even as heinous a mistake as presiding over a botched operation that resulted in the killing of an innocent man – could be depriving organisations, and the country, of leaders who have been tested and will not make the same mistake again.
(3) It's a mistake to say Etonians are as they are because of their families.
(4) Conservationists have warned that they can affect fish growth and persist in the guts of mussels and fish that mistake them for food.
(5) After trading mistakes, Wawrinka got lucky at 30-30, mishitting a service return and fooling Djokovic.
(6) Masutha said the parole board had made a mistake when they approved Pistorius for early release, but his intervention has been widely criticised by legal experts.
(7) After winning his prize, Malcolm Turnbull must learn from Abbott's mistakes Read more Abbott appointed Warren Mundine to head his hand picked advisory council on Indigenous affairs.
(8) BUSH ON IRAQ TONIGHT: Mr President, if I can move on to the question of Iraq, when we last spoke before the Iraq war, I asked you about Saddam Hussein and you said this, and I quote: "He harbours and develops weapons of mass destruction, make no mistake about it."
(9) I believe Flower when he promises he would not repeat his mistake.
(10) He admitted to "very serious mistakes", highlighting problems with the party's channels of communication.
(11) But Wawrinka, who seemed to be flexing his knee a moment ago, is making more mistakes.
(12) "Don't be discouraged that we have to acknowledge potentially we've made some mistakes.
(13) The most common provoking factor in case of status and series were medication mistakes.
(14) The UN already made a mistake, they broke their own rule.
(15) Make no mistake about who the chief beneficiaries are.
(16) He added that the appearance this week on Libyan television of the Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset al-Megrahi showed it had been a mistake by the Scottish justice minister to release him on compassionate grounds in 2009.
(17) Other parents are going to have to look into it, because I’ve made a big mistake moving him.
(18) Mistakes in maternity care account for a third of the £1bn a year the NHS has to spend settling medical negligence claims.
(19) These figures cast doubt on health secretary Jeremy Hunt's claim that the rise in A&E attendances was due to Labour's "historic mistake" in 2004 to let GPs no longer take responsibility for providing out-of-hours care.
(20) We make mistakes, and fall victim to the temptations of pride, and power, and sometimes evil.