Definition of Hallucinosis

1. Noun. A mental state in which the person has continual hallucinations.


Definition of Hallucinosis

1. Noun. (pathology) A mental state of hallucination. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Hallucinosis

1. [n -NOSES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hallucinosis

hallucinations
hallucinator
hallucinators
hallucinatory
hallucinatory neuralgia
hallucinaut
hallucinauts
hallucinogen
hallucinogenesis
hallucinogenic
hallucinogenic drug
hallucinogenics
hallucinogenlike
hallucinogens
hallucinoses
hallucinosis (current term)
hallus
hallux
hallux dolorosus
hallux extensus
hallux flexus
hallux malleus
hallux rigidus
hallux valgus
hallux varus
halluxes
hallway
hallways
hallyon
hallyons

Literary usage of Hallucinosis

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Unsound Mind and the Law: A Presentation of Forensic Psychiatry by George W. Jacoby (1918)
"Weakened facial innervation, light palsies, tremor and neuritic symptoms are present as in alcoholic delirium, but acute hallucinosis differs from the ..."

2. Clinical psychiatry by Emil Kraepelin, Allen Ross Diefendorf (1907)
"ACUTE ALCOHOLIC hallucinosis This psychosis ' is characterized by the sudden development of coherent delusions of persecution, based mostly upon ..."

3. The Kingdom of Evils: Psychiatric Social Work Presented in One Hundred Case by Elmer Ernest Southard, Mary Cromwell Jarrett (1922)
"... o Social worker, 5 Letters, I Alcoholic hallucinosis in discharged real estate agent. Other forms of alcoholic psychoses. Temporary care law. Case 60. ..."

4. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"(d: Acute Hallucinatory Confusion (Amentia, Acute Confusional Insanity, Acute hallucinosis) In various infections, intoxications, and states of exhaustion ..."

5. Diseases of the nervous system by Smith Ely Jelliffe, William Alanson White (1917)
"Alcoholic hallucinosis.—This condition is also an expression of chronic alcoholism and may be preceded by attacks of delirium tremens. ..."

6. Practice of Medicine by Frederick Tice (1921)
"Acute hallucinosis.—This condition develops in chronic alcoholics under much the same condition and circumstances as delirium tremens; it differs from the ..."

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