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What is delirium tremens?

What is delirium tremens? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (pathology) A psychosis of chronic alcoholism, usually due to alcohol withdrawal, which can be fatal. Symptoms include sweating, tremors, terrifying hallucinations, insomnia, restlessness, disorientation and anxiety.
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Hoag believed that he was intoxicated, that delirium tremens had overtaken him.
You give him at first all the joys of the world and at last the delirium tremens.
In man the diseases which have to be distinguished from the furious form of rabies are tetanus, mania, delirium tremens, and cases of lyssophobia.
You said, by way of explanation, that the person had died of delirium tremens.
Patients with acute alcoholism, delirium tremens, and convulsive disorders.
As I understand it, delirium tremens is a psychological state that seems to have some physical consequences.

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