nocturnal delirium
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.78 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
5
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A state of agitation or confusion, especially in elderly patients suffering from Alzheimer's disease or other forms of dementia, which begins daily at nightfall and which is alleviated by daylight.
Example Sentences
- "Nocturnal delirium of the senile patient is primarily due to the fact that the severe retention defect, and more particularly the greatly accelerated secondary elaboration (Cameron, 1940) found in senile patients, does not permit of the preservation of the spatial image after darkness has interfered with direct visualization."
- "The nocturnal deliria were piled together with the daytime intoxications and obsessions in order to build a particularly adaptable dream machine, which still awaits a visit from social psychoanalysis in order to penetrate a bit more lucidly into the ancien régime's intricate labryinth of dreams."
- "Preliminary observations by means of motor activity recordings made it possible to classify demented patients with delirium into different groups according to their motor activity, e.g. nocturnal delirium type, wandering type, hypoboulic type, and lying-down type (Honma et a., 1998)."