DELIRIOUS | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary

Meaning of delirious in English

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We compared delirious and nondelirious patients for severity of preoperative depressive symptoms, length of hospital stay and mortality.
Nurses' experience of caring for delirious patients.
If a person can conform to the usual clinical practice of participating in the acquisition of a history and a mental status examination they are unlikely to be delirious.
On admission already 14%-24% of elderly patients may be delirious and 6%-56% develop delirium in their course of hospitalization, which is associated with poor functional outcome.
Hyperactive delir ious patients are more likely to attract medical and nursing attention than those who are quietly delirious, who may be erroneously considered as depressed or demented.
The lucid interval between a delirogenic insult and the presentation of delirious symptoms, sometimes hours to days later, is likely to be an index of the deliriant threshold.
The two-piano version is as delirious and harrowing as the orchestral, which is unique among the symphonies not just for its size but for its musical risks combined with successes.
There followed seven delirious, confused months during which people tried to discover what to do with freedom.
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He alleged that in some cases the patients used were delirious, psychotic or comatose, and included many aged over 70, some dying from malignant diseases.
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One patient became suddenly delirious and violent, but was got under control by the nurses, and had become quiet before the medical officer arrived.
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Their minds become as delicately poised as those of babies, who become delirious in fever and recover with the fall in temperature.
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She was unable to appreciate it, being almost delirious with happiness.
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In fifteen minutes he had us almost delirious, because he was speaking with intense conviction upon the right of a people to govern itself in its own domestic affairs.
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Suspended between life and death, he returns, delirious, to his country to do what we all hope well have time to do.
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As it was impossible to instruct this delirious man, hopes for his conversion seemed doubtful.
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Translations of delirious

in Chinese (Traditional)
胡說的,語無倫次的, 神志不清的, 狂喜的…
in Chinese (Simplified)
说胡话的,语无伦次的, 神志不清的, 狂喜的…
in Spanish
delirante, delirante [masculine-feminine]…
in Portuguese
delirante, demente, delirante [masculine-feminine]…
in more languages
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(一時的に)精神が錯乱した, 幻覚(げんかく)が見(み)える…
(ateş ve ilaçlardan dolayı) sayıklayan, hezeyan gösteren, sevinçten çılgına dönmüş…
pris/prise de délire…
delirant…
هَذياني…
majaczący, w amoku, oszalały z radości…
sinnsforvirret…
의식이 혼미한…
delirante…
находящийся в бреду, ликующий, вне себя от восторга…
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