mania (ma'ne-ah). 1

An old term for an acute psychosis with active and violent symptoms, now obsolete as a special type. 2. See psychosis, acute m. M. of sudden onset, with violent symptoms, alcoholic m. Acute delirium due to alcoholic exce es, dancing m. Syn.: leaping ague. Hysteria. epileptic m. Acute excitement occurring in an epileptic, sometimes a ociated with a decided propensity to the performance of 512 criminal acts. It may come on either gradually or very suddenly, hallucinatory m. M. in which hallucinations are the predominating symptoms, homicidal m. M. in which there is an intense propensity to homicide, m. of character. Of Pinel, reasoning monomania, m. persecutor i a puerperal is. M. of persecution occurring in a puerperal woman. m. potato rum. See alcoholic insanity, under insanity, transitory m. Acute m. lasting a few hours or a few days. Maudsley considers it a mental epilepsy. traumatic m. See delirium nervosum traumaticum, under delirium, and traumatic insanity, under insanity, typhom'. Acute delirious m. in which the temperature and general condition resemble those of typhoid fever. [Gr., mania, from mainesthai, to rage.]