Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An abnormal condition or mental state characterized by hallucination.
Wiktionary
- n. pathology A mental state of hallucination.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a mental state in which the person has continual hallucinations
Etymologies
- hallucin(ation) + -osis. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Peduncular hallucinosis occurs when perfectly sane people begin to see small, unthreatening cartoon characters, often in military attire.”
“I am speaking of what I can call musical hallucinosis, involuntary music in the head.”
Dr. Leo Rangell: Music in the Head: Living at the Brain-Mind Border; Part 1
“Carl Zimmer has written a great article for the Sunday Telegraph about a brain disorder called musical hallucinosis.”
“In particular, he appreciates that the robust differences between dreaming and waking consciousness such as the visuomotor hallucinosis, the delusional belief that one is awake, the distinctive defects in cognition, the heightened emotionality, and the poor memory have their neural correlates in the altered neural activation pattern of REM sleep.”
“Experienced and knowledgeable clinicians, however, can further refine this and other amorphous categories (e.g., hallucinosis secondary to coarse brain disease) by their awareness of the scientific literature, which always runs ahead of the official nosology and offers unofficial, but clinically useful, choices (e.g., catatonia as a treatment-responsive syndrome separate from schizophrenia; various frontal and parietal lobe syndromes).”
Simon & Schuster: The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry
“Atypical symptom cluster e.g., depressive syndrome with apathy, not sadness, hallucinosis without other psychopathology, mania with psychomotor features or stereotypy”
Simon & Schuster: The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry
“The phenomenon of auditory hallucinations in chronic alcoholism: A critical evaluation of the status of alcoholic hallucinosis.”
Simon & Schuster: The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry
“Although its proper place in psychiatric nosology is unclear see Chapter 11, reactive psychosis is characterized by an acute onset episode of hallucinosis, usually with delusional ideas, following a precipitating event.”
Simon & Schuster: The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry
“Alcoholic hallucinosis and schizophrenia: A negative study.”
Simon & Schuster: The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry
“It was known, for example, that TIQs can induce changes in blood pressure and temperature, hyperexcitability leading to withdrawal seizure, and hallucinosis.”
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