zooscopichttp://www.oed.com/dictionary/zooscopic_adj%3Ftab%3Dmeaning_and_usezooscopic, adj.
Revised 2017

zooscopicadjective

  1. 1817–
    † a. Of or relating to the scientific study of animals; zoological (obsolete rare); b. Psychiatry designating a hallucination in which intimidating animals are visualized; cf. zooscopy n.
    1. 1817
      Zooscopic or Zoologic Physiurgics.
      J. Bentham, Chrestomathia Part II 189
    2. 1890
      This condition of zoöscopic hallucination is one of the commonest among the phenomena of alcohol poisoning.
      Science vol. 15 43
    3. 1991
      The visual hallucinations..are typically, as in delirium tremens, zooscopic in type with animals being visualized, often insects or rodents or snakes.
      N. S. Miller, Pharmacol. Alcohol vii. 80

Originally published as part of the entry for zoo-, comb. form

zoo-, comb. form was revised in June 2017.