sickness : Idioms & Phrases

• noun motion sickness experienced while traveling by air (especially during turbulence)
  airsickness.
  

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• noun effects (as nosebleed or nausea) of oxygen deficiency in the blood and tissues at high altitudes
  

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• noun motion sickness experienced while traveling in a car
  

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• foot rot, a disease affecting sheep.

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• noun pain resulting from rapid change in pressure
  caisson disease; bends; gas embolism; air embolism; aeroembolism.
  

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• (Med.), epilepsy. Shak.

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• a remitting bilious fever in the Netherlands. Dunglison.

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• (Med.), chlorosis.

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• extreme depression of spirits.

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Love"-sick`ness noun

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1. The state of being love-sick.

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• noun disease of livestock and especially cattle poisoned by eating certain kinds of snakeroot
  trembles.
  
• noun caused by consuming milk from cattle suffering from trembles
  

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• (Med.), a peculiar malignant disease, occurring in some parts of the Western United States, and affecting certain kinds of farm stock (esp. cows), and persons who make use of the meat or dairy products of infected cattle. Its chief symptoms in man are uncontrollable vomiting, obstinate constipation, pain, and muscular tremors. Its origin in cattle has been variously ascribed to the presence of certain plants in their food, and to polluted drinking water.

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• noun nausea early in the day; a characteristic symptom in the early months of pregnancy
  

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• (Med.), nausea and vomiting, usually occurring in the morning; a common sign of pregnancy.

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• noun the state of being dizzy or nauseated because of the motions that occur while traveling in or on a moving vehicle
  kinetosis.
  

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• noun nausea and shortness of breath experienced by mountain climbers above ten thousand feet
  

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• noun illness that can occur to persons exposed to ozone in high-altitude aircraft; characterized by sleepiness and headache and chest pains and itchiness
  

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• noun syndrome resulting from exposure to ionizing radiation (e.g., exposure to radioactive chemicals or to nuclear explosions); low doses cause diarrhea and nausea and vomiting and sometimes loss of hair; greater exposure can cause sterility and cataracts and some forms of cancer and other diseases; severe exposure can cause death within hours
  radiation; radiation syndrome.
  
  • he was suffering from radiation

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• noun a delayed allergic reaction to the injection of an antiserum caused by an antibody reaction to an antigen in the donor serum
  serum disease.
  

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• noun money paid (by the government) to someone who is too ill to work
  sick benefit.
  

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• noun an encephalitis that was epidemic between 1915 and 1926; symptoms include paralysis of the extrinsic eye muscle and extreme muscular weakness
  sleeping sickness; epidemic encephalitis; encephalitis lethargica; lethargic encephalitis.
  

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• noun an encephalitis that was epidemic between 1915 and 1926; symptoms include paralysis of the extrinsic eye muscle and extreme muscular weakness
  sleeping sickness; epidemic encephalitis; encephalitis lethargica; lethargic encephalitis.
  

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• noun a disease of cattle (especially calves)
  
• noun epidemic in the 15th and 16th centuries and characterized by profuse sweating and high mortality
  miliary fever.
  

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• (Med.), a febrile epidemic disease which prevailed in some countries of Europe, but particularly in England, in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, characterized by profuse sweating. Death often occured in a few hours.

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