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What does delirium mean?

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Noun
  1. A temporary mental state with a sudden onset, usually reversible, including symptoms of confusion, inability to concentrate, disorientation, anxiety, and sometimes hallucinations. Causes can include dehydration, drug intoxication, and severe infection.
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His equaliser brought welcome relief to the bench, but when the last-gasp winner went in delirium broke out.
Patients with delirium may display a wide range of emotions, including anxiety, sadness or tearfulness, and euphoria.
She had said those things shortly before regressing back into the delirium that she had been in almost since he had found her.
Tiger bone is used to treat arthritis and muscular atrophy, and rhino horn to treat fevers, convulsions, and delirium.
For example, delirium, medication use, and psychiatric illnesses such as amnestic disorders may be associated with cognitive impairment.
Such strange visions appeared during my delirium, beach demons with claws, odd quadrupeds, wings that staggered through dusk.

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