Delirium Sentence Examples

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  • They had a fight in their delirium, and one was severely wounded.

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  • In cases of poisoning the delirium may last for many hours or even days.

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  • Produces a state of excited delirium - extreme highs and lows.

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  • J. Russell Reynolds, Royal Physician, found treatment of alcoholic delirium with cannabis to be " very uncertain, but occasionally useful " .

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  • In just three years we have gone from near oblivion to delirium.

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  • It is a mere delirium of the present semi-official organ to whom there is nobody to give the worthy rebuff.

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  • Anti-seizure medications and anti-psychotic drugs are often used during delirium tremens.

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  • Sleep disturbances and, ultimately, sleep-wake cycle reversals, can be early signs of a developing delirium.

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  • This involved working to evidence-based pathways of care for mental health problems including delirium, dementia and depression.

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  • Some of the members were quite keen on a little delirium.

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  • Meanwhile newly-conquered England had its own problems to solve; and Germany, torn by civil war, and not naturally quick to kindle, could only deride the "delirium" of the crusader.'

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  • In a well-marked case there is usually an initial rigor - in children convulsions - followed by a rise of temperature, with vomiting, headache, giddiness, intolerance to light; pain in epigastrium, back and limbs; sleeplessness, apathy or delirium.

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  • Delirium tremens-a condition in which mental and neurological changes cause confusion, disorientation, hyperactivity, hallucinations, and cardiovascular changes.

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  • Addicts who expect to have severe withdrawal symptoms, such as delirium tremens or seizures, should also be in a medical model of drug detoxification.

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  • Ranging from the sudden onset of confusion, known as delirium, to various forms and degrees of dementia including Alzheimer's Disease, the term confused elderly means different things.

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  • Symptoms include uncontrollable vomiting, often with lethargy, memory loss, disorientation, or delirium.

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  • Severe withdrawal can result in serious medical problems, including delirium tremens.

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  • Delirium tremens-A complication that may accompany alcohol withdrawal.

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  • The doctor will perform a thorough medical examination to determine whether the explosive outburst was related to substance abuse, withdrawal from drugs, head trauma, delirium, or other physical conditions.

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  • Illness with high fever may bring about delirium with frightening episodes of nighttime awakening.

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  • Other side effects include dry mouth, constipation, difficulty urinating, blurred vision, sedation, weight gain, central nervous system and cardiovascular toxicity, delirium, and risk of suicide by overdose.

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  • Symptoms of Reye's syndrome are nausea and vomiting, and more seriously, neurological problems such as confusion or delirium.

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  • Severe side effects include seizures, delirium, and hallucination, but are rare and are nearly always limited to people who have kidney problems, seizure disorders, or psychiatric disorders.

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  • Her agent explained this as delirium resulting from exhaustion.

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  • Maybe it was his delirium, but Jule thought the vamp looked larger than even Damian.

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  • But directly he was released from the rack he always withdrew the confessions uttered in the delirium of pain.

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  • This resulted in an inflammation of the upper membrane of the brain, delirium and death.

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  • Bromural or a-bromisovaleryl urea, NH 2 C0 NH C0 CHBr CH(CH 3) 2, has been introduced as an hypnotic; its action is mild, and interfered with by the presence of pain, cough or delirium.

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  • Horrible mental depression and melancholia are present, and there may be hallucinations of vision and hearing passing into violent delirium.

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  • When taken continuously the drug soon loses its power as a hypnotic. Its unpleasant taste usually prevents the formation of a paraldehyde habit, but it occasionally occurs with symptoms resembling delirium tremens.

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  • Alcohol or drug intoxication, delirium, obesity and respiratory problems (asthma among them) can increase the risk of positional asphyxia.

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  • Scientists, publishers and librarians all seem to suffer delirium when it comes to electronic publishing.

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  • Writing, deals with alienation provided by language; or what may be called the endless delirium of language.

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  • According to the Harrogate Advertiser a storming rendition of Riverdance caused such delirium that the audience would not stop clapping.

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  • The consequence was a nervous illness with some of the symptoms of delirium tremens, through which George Sand nursed him with tenderness and care.

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  • Remittent fevers (as well as intermittents) vary considerably in intensity; some cases are intense from the outset, or pernicious, with aggrava tion of all the symptoms - leading to stupor, delirium, collapse, intense jaundice, blood in the stools, blood and albumen in the urine, and, it may be, suppression of urine followed by convulsions.

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  • His state of universal doubt he describes as a " malady " or as " philosophical melancholy and delirium."

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  • There may be bleeding from the nose, cutaneous congestion, deafness, blindness, coma or delirium, and even death from cardiac failure.

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  • He wore a greatcoat in midsummer, being affected with the trembling delirium, and his face was the color of carmine.

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  • Prince Andrew wished to return to that former world of pure thought, but he could not, and delirium drew him back into its domain.

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  • I suspect that all things unspoken in our souls partake somewhat of the laxity of delirium and dementia.

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  • And his attention was suddenly carried into another world, a world of reality and delirium in which something particular was happening.

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  • The headache is described as splitting; delirium is of the busy type, like delirium tremens.

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  • Though he thought of everything, considered everything, and did everything the best of officers could do in his position, he was in a state akin to feverish delirium or drunkenness.

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  • Prayers were offered everywhere for his recovery, and the country was swept by a delirium of loyal enthusiasm, which conferred on him the title of Louis le bien aline'.

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  • Further, he had the discernment to see that certain symptoms - such as convulsions and delirium, which were then commonly held always to indicate inflammation - were often really signs of weakness.

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  • The headache, deafness, ringing in the ears and even delirium of salicylism, are practically identical with the symptoms of cinchonism.

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  • This has long been a debated matter, but it may now be stated, with considerable certainty, that the higher centres are incoordinately stimulated, a state closely resembling that of delirium tremens being induced.

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  • The treatment of plague is still symptomatic. The points requiring most attention are the cerebral symptoms - headache, sleeplessness, delirium, &c. - and the state of the heart.

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  • The presence of toxins in the blood not only affects the brain, causing delirium, but also other organs, the heart and lung, and may cause fatal syncope or respiratory failure.

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  • Stimulants are those which lead to excitation of the mental faculties and in quantity may lead to delirium and incoherence.

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  • The conditions in which bromides are most frequently used are insomnia, epilepsy, whooping-cough, delirium tremens, asthma, migraine, laryngismus stridulus, the symptoms often attendant upon the climacteric in women, hysteria, neuralgia, certain nervous disorders of the heart, strychnine poisoning, nymphomania and spermatorrhoea.

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