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DELIRIUM TREMENS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does delirium tremens mean?
• DELIRIUM TREMENS (noun)
The noun DELIRIUM TREMENS has 1 sense:
1. acute delirium caused by alcohol poisoning
Familiarity information: DELIRIUM TREMENS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Acute delirium caused by alcohol poisoning
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
delirium tremens; DTs
Hypernyms ("delirium tremens" is a kind of...):
psychosis (any severe mental disorder in which contact with reality is lost or highly distorted)
Context examples
Delirium tremens is a serious type of alcohol withdrawal syndrome.
(Delirium, NIH)
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