delirium

As the Aedes aegypti mosquito expanded its range across more of the Americas, it brought with it the delirium, jaundice, and aching joints of yellow fever.

From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2026

The resulting dizziness or delirium can trigger a visit to the hospital emergency room.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 12, 2026

In “Exit the King,” he confronts the insupportable reality of death with the same madcap delirium of his better known works, such as “The Bald Soprano,” “The Chairs” and “Rhinoceros.”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2026

She channels all of Nina’s prior faux delirium into a ferocious finale that raises the stakes tenfold.

From Salon ● Jan. 31, 2026

On December 29, Rey writes, “Today, my superior issued a certificate of mental disturbance, reporting general delirium and requesting specialized care in an asylum.”

From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman

The 4th century church father Jerome called them "deliria."

From Time Magazine Archive

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 F. (Friedrich) Bente

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

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 John T. (John Thompson) MacCurdy

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

Then she beheld a most unprecedented thing, a thing so unprecedented that nothing equal to it had appeared to her even in the blackest deliriums of fever.

From Les Misérables by Isabel Florence Hapgood

Dos’t hear? or sporting in my brain, What wildly-sweet deliriums reign!

From An Essay on the Lyric Poetry of the Ancients by Wallace Jackson