单词 | delirium tremens |
释义 | delirium tremensn. 1. A serious form of delirium typically characterized by tremors, delusions and vivid hallucinations, and physical manifestations such as fever and tachycardia, occurring in the first few days after the cessation of a prolonged period of intoxication with alcohol.The name was originally used by Thomas Sutton for a group of cases of delirium in which tremor of the hands was a prominent symptom, and which were successfully treated with opium.Also called DT or DT's (see D.T. n.). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [noun] > delirium tremens delirium tremens1813 mania a potu1818 oenomania1852 D.T.1858 jump1879 jim-jams1885 jimmies1900 heebie-jeebies1923 1813 T. Sutton Tracts Delirium Tremens, Peritonitis, & Gout i. 5 During this abode, and early in my residence there, I was led to see the distinction between phrenitis and delirium tremens. 1865 E. B. Tylor Res. Early Hist. Mankind i. 6 The fiends which torment the victim of delirium tremens. 1915 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 16 Jan. 138/2 The causation of delirium tremens by the deprivation of alcohol is not my doctrine, though I adopt and endorse it. 2018 Daily Mail (Nexis) 14 Apr. A friend remembered him falling asleep in the garden, only to wake in a fit of delirium tremens, shouting, ‘They're after me!’. 2. figurative and in figurative contexts, esp. with reference to the hallucinations and delusions experienced by persons with delirium tremens. ΚΠ 1832 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Jan. 123/2 The delirium tremens of radicalism, in which the unhappy patient..imagines himself haunted by a thousand devils, who are not only men but Tories. 1927 Amer. Mercury Feb. 243/2 Candy merchants used to put up their wares in plain white boxes..—if they wish to do any business today they must put them up in boxes that look like delirium tremens. 2011 S. Reynolds Retromania (2012) viii. 264 The energy that burned through was electrifying from the paranoid delirium tremens of ‘Talk Talk’ by The Music Machine to the sensual inferno of fuzztone that is ‘You Burn Me Up and Down’ by We the People. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1813 |
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