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hallucinosis

[ huh-loo-suh-noh-sis ]

noun

Psychiatry.
  1. a mental state characterized by repeated hallucinations.


hallucinosis

/ əˌːɪˈəʊɪ /

noun

  1. psychiatry a mental disorder the symptom of which is hallucinations, commonly associated with the ingestion of alcohol or other drugs
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of hallucinosis1

First recorded in 1900–05; hallucin(ation) + -osis
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His “musical hallucinosis,” as he called it, alarmed him at first, then gradually became a part of his interior life.

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Other hallucinations associated with alcohol withdrawal, or alcoholic hallucinosis, tend to be brief and involve hearing accusatory or threatening voices.

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In alcoholic hallucinosis the patient has delusions of persecution and hears voices accusing him of all kinds of wrong-doing.

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Now we understand why the patient in an acute alcoholic hallucinosis almost invariably hears voices making homosexual accusations.

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The correlation is suggestive with the probably auditory hallucinosis.

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