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Delirium tremens

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Noun
  1. 1
    A severe, potentially life-threatening form of alcohol withdrawal characterized by the abrupt onset of global confusion, autonomic hyperactivity, and profound neuropsychiatric disturbances. uncountable
  2. 2
    acute delirium caused by alcohol poisoning wordnet

Etymology

From Latin dēlīrium tremēns (literally “trembling madness”), coined by Thomas Sutton in 1813.

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