delirium
Fever-induced mental chaos
Delirium is a disturbed mental state marked by confusion, disorientation, and often hallucinations or agitation.
It typically comes on suddenly from fever, infection, drugs, or withdrawal: The patient slipped into delirium overnight.
Extended to mean wild excitement or frenzied emotion: The crowd erupted in delirium when the goal was scored.
Uncontrollable emotional excess
- maniaIntense, consuming obsession
- feverishHaving elevated temperature
- franticWildly anxious or desperate
- ravingSpeaking wildly, incoherently
wild · agitated · manic · ranting · unhinged · overwrought · ecstatic · rapture
Elevated body temperature
- infectionPathogen invasion causing illness
- sepsisDangerous inflammatory infection response
- encephalitisInflammatory brain condition
- withdrawalAct of taking away
ICU · psychosis · agitation · tremens · sundowning · postoperative · toxicity · hyperthermia
Loss of spatial awareness
- bewildermentState of being baffled
- incoherenceFailure to make sense
- fogLow-lying cloud cover
- dazeBewildered mental state
stupor · muddled · clouded · rambling · lucidity · addled · befuddlement · disconnection
Imagined or prophetic sights
- phantasmagoriaShifting sequence of illusions
- apparitionVisible supernatural manifestation
- illusionMisleading sensory impression
- delusionStubbornly held false belief
seeing things · paranoia · nightmarish · vivid · distorted · phantoms · chimera · figment
Addiction to drinking
- withdrawalAct of taking away
- shakingRapid involuntary movement
- sweatingMoisture through pores
- seizuresInvoluntary convulsions or takings
hallucinations · detox · chronic · severe · medical emergency · benzodiazepines · tachycardia · hospitalization
hysteria
Uncontrollable emotional excess
- maniaIntense, consuming obsession
- feverishHaving elevated temperature
- franticWildly anxious or desperate
raving · wild · agitated · manic · ranting · unhinged · overwrought · ecstatic · rapture · abandon
fever
Elevated body temperature
- infectionPathogen invasion causing illness
- sepsisDangerous inflammatory infection response
- encephalitisInflammatory brain condition
withdrawal · ICU · psychosis · agitation · tremens · sundowning · postoperative · toxicity · hyperthermia · meningitis
disorientation
Loss of spatial awareness
- bewildermentState of being baffled
- incoherenceFailure to make sense
- fogLow-lying cloud cover
daze · stupor · muddled · clouded · rambling · lucidity · addled · befuddlement · disconnection · perplexity
visions
Imagined or prophetic sights
- phantasmagoriaShifting sequence of illusions
- apparitionVisible supernatural manifestation
- illusionMisleading sensory impression
delusion · seeing things · paranoia · nightmarish · vivid · distorted · phantoms · chimera · figment · voices
alcoholism
Addiction to drinking
- withdrawalAct of taking away
- shakingRapid involuntary movement
- sweatingMoisture through pores
seizures · hallucinations · detox · chronic · severe · medical emergency · benzodiazepines · tachycardia · hospitalization
drunkenness
Impaired state from alcohol
- inebriationDrunken state
- stuporSuspended sensibility
- wastedUsed without good result
tripping · high · altered · alcohol · withdrawal · overdose · toxic · impaired · addled · bender
- neurological symptomsnumbness, tremor, paralysis, aphasia, ataxia
- symptomsfever, headache, pain, nausea, rash
- chaosmayhem, chaotic, pandemonium, bedlam, turmoil
- excitementexcitement, enthusiasm, eagerness, exhilaration, thrill
- frenzyfrenzy, mania, hysteria, madness, fury
- intense emotionsrage, fury, wrath, anger, hatred
- delirium tremensAcute alcohol withdrawal crisis
delirious, deliriously, deliriums, deliriousness, delirium tremens