hallucinosisn.
/haˌl(j)uːsɪˈnəʊsɪs/ Psychiatry.
A disorder of the nervous system associated particularly with alcoholism, marked by persistent hallucinations, commonly auditory, with little if any impairment of consciousness.
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1905 S. Paton Psychiatry xi. 300 Acute alcoholic hallucinosis.
1908 Practitioner Jan. 9 The acute hallucinosis and paranoidal forms of alcoholic insanity.
1912 W. Osler & T. McCrae Princ. & Pract. Med. (ed. 8) iii. i. 399 Alcoholism... There is a condition termed acute hallucinosis, in which auditory hallucinations are marked..and the mental disturbances are fixed. Ideas of persecution are common. There are intermediate forms between this and the ordinary delirium tremens.
1914 Amer. Jrnl. Insanity 70 ii. 369 (title) Study of hallucinosis.
1962 D. K. Henderson & R. D. Gillespie Text-bk. Psychiatry xii. 291 Accompanied by..clear and orderly thinking, willing and acting; there is no real or genuine hallucinosis.
1964 C. Landis & F. A. Mettler Varieties Psychopathol. Exper. xiv. 312 The horror, torture, and pain experienced during delirium tremens or alcoholic hallucinosis have been described many times.
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