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DELIQUIUM

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Deliquium Animi (from delingo, to swoon), a swooning or fainting away; called also syncope, lipotrophia, lipopsychia, ecysis, and astyria.

Deliquium (from deliquesco, to dissolve); in Chemistry, is the dissolution or melting of a salt by suspending it in a moist cellar. Salt of tartar, or any fixed alkali, placed in a cellar or other cool and moist situation, and in an open vessel, resolves or runs into a kind of liquor called by the older chemists oil of tartar per deliquium.

Delirium (from deliro, to rave or talk idly). When the ideas excited in the mind do not correspond with external objects, but are produced by the change induced on the sensorium, the patient is said to be delirious.