Converse of object

• cause: It was a term he might use with a patient who is suffering from delirium caused by a high fever.

• develop: Sleep disturbances and, ultimately, sleep-wake cycle reversals, can be early signs of a developing delirium.

• include: This involved working to evidence-based pathways of care for mental health problems including delirium, dementia and depression.

• suffer: Scientists, publishers and librarians all seem to suffer delirium when it comes to electronic publishing.

• produce: Many remarkable instances occurred of people being attacked with the disease during a delirium thus produced, and from which the head never cleared.

• call: Writing, deals with alienation provided by language; or what may be called the endless delirium of language.

Adjective modifier

• excited: Produces a state of excited delirium - extreme highs and lows.

• alcoholic: J. Russell Reynolds, Royal Physician, found treatment of alcoholic delirium with cannabis to be " very uncertain, but occasionally useful " .

• violent: These lead to fits which in turn become delirium tremens or DTs - violent delirium with hallucinations.

• little: Some of the members were quite keen on a little delirium.

• such: According to the Harrogate Advertiser a storming rendition of Riverdance caused such delirium that the audience would not stop clapping.

Modifies a noun

• tremens: He died of delirium tremens on 15th December 1848 at Looe Street, St Andrew, Plymouth, Devon.

• tremor: I was just 20 years old and having delirium tremors; it was just awful.

Noun used with modifier

• cue: Cue delirium from the City fans and an agitated inquest among the Ciren players.

Possessives

• mathematician: Raymond Queneau: " An imagination which joins the mathematicians ' delirium to the poets ' logic.

Preposition: in

• patient: References: Massie MJ, Holland J, Glass E: Delirium in terminally ill cancer patients.

• person: Weinrich S, Sarna L: Delirium in the older person with cancer.

Preposition: of

• fever: It is said that the first idea of the Prisons came to Piranesi in the delirium of fever.

• joy: What rapture glad Would fill the soul, what blest delirium Of joy, could she burst through the veil that hides her doom!