emergence delirium
C2CEFR level
92/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister
A state of agitation, disorientation and inconsolable behaviour that some patients, particularly children, display while waking from anaesthesia.
The toddler thrashed and cried inconsolably in recovery, a classic picture of emergence delirium after sevoflurane.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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