delirium tremens
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An autopsy later found that she had been experiencing delirium tremens caused by withdrawal from diazepam, an anti-anxiety medication that P.T.S. staff members said they were never informed she was taking.
From New York Times • Jul. 6, 2016
The book records a period of acute psychological and spiritual disorientation, delirium tremens, the near-destruction of a literary intelligence, starring Kerouac as Jack Duluoz, “bloody ‘King of the Beatniks.’”
From Slate • Jan. 15, 2013
I lay very quiet, however, thinking that he was either a victim of delirium tremens or a lunatic.
From Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi by Devol, George H.
The treatment is carried out on the same lines as that of delirium tremens.
From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Thomson, Alexis
Brain′-fe′ver, a loose popular term which includes congestion of the brain and its membranes, delirium tremens, and inflammation of the brain substance itself.—adjs.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
