delirium
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The resulting dizziness or delirium can trigger a visit to the hospital emergency room.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 12, 2026
Older patients or people with certain health conditions can experience neurocognitive issues after anesthesia, including memory or concentration problems, or postoperative delirium.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 3, 2026
Those who’ve managed to come out of this new kind of tech-enabled delirium have learned how vital it is to stay in touch with the natural world and their natural instincts.
From Slate ● Feb. 2, 2026
The equaliser sent Tynecastle into an advanced state of delirium.
From BBC ● Jan. 25, 2026
In a state of delirium, wavering between life and death, Bill would sometimes mutter, “They got Rita and now it looks like they’ve got me.”
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
The 4th century church father Jerome called them "deliria."
From Time Magazine Archive
Pronounced mental disorder occurs rarely in tuberculosis, according to Ziehen, and leads either to melancholia or to hallucinatory states of excitement, resembling the deliria of exhaustion or inanition.
From The Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Volume 10 by Various
During Luther's life and afterwards I rejected these Stoic and Manichean deliria, when Luther and others wrote: All works, good and bad, in all men, good and bad, must occur as they do.
From Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church by Bente, F. (Friedrich)
If stupor be a psychobiological reaction, it should occur, occasionally, in organic conditions just as the deliria of typhoid fever may contain many psychogenic elements.
From Benign Stupors A Study of a New Manic-Depressive Reaction Type by MacCurdy, John T. (John Thompson)
A similar explanation is made readily enough in cases of evident bodily disease, even where mental symptoms are prominent, for it is no longer the custom to speak of demon-possession even in the acute deliria.
From The Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Volume 10 by Various
Critics called the product’s most notable side effect “delirium” and warned that these deliriums could have catastrophic effects on children, the elderly, or the immunocompromised.
From Slate ● Aug. 28, 2021
Is this the book that launched a thousand quips, and stirred the orators to deliriums of denunciation?
From Time Magazine Archive
On the evening of the second day, the girl—the one who Goddard said was so important—came into his room in between deliriums.
From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman
Even the monsters which crawl through the deliriums of the mind are not as horrible as those which infest the mad and haunted world of which I speak.”
From Astounding Stories of Super-Science, March 1930 by Bates, Harry
Such historical memorials are the deliriums of learning, or are founded on forgeries.
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 by Disraeli, Isaac
Vocabulary lists containing delirium
Their Eyes Were Watching God
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Unit 1: Telling Details
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"An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" by Ambrose Bierce
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