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

There was delirium when they took an early lead against Germany in their opening game, but it would end in humiliation as the European giants eventually stuck seven past them.

From BBC ● Jun. 21, 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

The show once referenced a fast-food item, called the Ribwich, that drives Homer to delirium.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 29, 2026

The girl should have drunk it and fallen into a delirium; that was what happened when Elowen issued a command: It was obeyed.

From "Huntress" by Malinda Lo

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

Before Breuer and Janet, the great psychiatrist Leuret expressed the opinion that even for the deliria of the insane, if we only understood how to interpret them, a meaning could be found.

From A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

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 F. (Friedrich) Bente

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

For deliriums are a kind of dreams of people awake; and the mind in both cases affects the body differently, according to the nature of its objects.

From Medica Sacra or a Commentary on on the Most Remarkable Diseases Mentioned in the Holy Scriptures by Richard Mead

Thou alone canst comprehend my joys and my deliriums.

From Three short works The Dance of Death, the Legend of Saint Julian the Hospitaller, a Simple Soul. by Gustave Flaubert