delirium tremens in English

noun
1
a psychotic condition typical of withdrawal in chronic alcoholics, involving tremors, hallucinations, anxiety, and disorientation.
Major alcohol withdrawal or delirium tremens typically begins within 48 to 72 hours of the last drink, with peaking of symptoms on days 4 and 5.

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1. 20 Contemplate your incarnate Delirium Tremens!

2. In the latter stages of alcoholism, delirium tremens can occur.

3. He continued to drink, however, and was on the verge of delirium tremens.

4. Millions die from cirrhosis of the liver, delirium tremens and other alcohol-related ailments.

5. Delirium tremens typically only occurs in people with a high intake of alcohol for more than a month.

6. Plasma phospholipids were examined in patients with delirium tremens in the acute phase of the disease and after recovery.

7. Acute paranoid psychosis, maniac phases, delirium tremens etc. may be more easily recognized by confrontation in the human figure drawings.

8. These symptoms are part of what is called “delirium tremens,” and this is estimated to have a 20-percent mortality rate.

9. Among the diseases caused by alcohol abuse are cirrhosis of the liver, alcoholic hepatitis, and such neural disorders as delirium tremens.

10. Barbiturates are commonly used in procedures that require general anesthesia as well as an anticonvulsant for individuals suffering from seizure disorders, delirium tremens, and insomnia

11. Alcohol abuse is clearly deleterious to the brain, provoking acute and chronic mental disorders, ranging from intoxication with impairment of cognition, to delirium tremens, halluosis, and dementia.

12. Suboxone is contraindicated in the following instances: hypersensitivity to buprenorphine, to naloxone, or to any of the excipients, severe respiratory insufficiency, severe hepatic insufficiency, acute alcoholism or delirium tremens

13. In time, the drinker may develop delirium tremens —with its violent shaking, frightening hallucinations and forms of paralysis— and, though only lasting from three to ten days, this often proves fatal.

14. Fifty chronic alcoholics with acute withdrawal (in the state of delirium tremens) were examined initially and in the following weeks by quantitatively testing immunoglobulins in the serum and in the cerebrospinal fluid to study the dynamics of the blood-CSF barrier.