What's the difference between airsick and seasick?
Airsick
Definition:
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Seasick
Definition:
(a.) Affected with seasickness.
Example Sentences:
(1) It cannot be established whether or not seasickness contributed to the cause of death in the case of the Ocean Ranger victims, but it did occur in 75% or more of TEMPSC occupants in the other four rig disasters.
(2) Titanic's trailer is two minutes 37 seconds of lifeboat-related stampeding intercut with women swishing about in big hats doing seasick Dowager Countess expressions.
(3) This was soon accompanied by other “medicinal” drinks such as the gimlet, to avoid scurvy on ship, and pink gin, which was said to help seasickness.
(4) Thousands of other peacetime marine incidents were reviewed and a literature search was conducted to assess the same seasickness problem.
(5) Eighty naval cadets, unaccustomed to sailing in heavy seas reported during voyages on the high seas, symptoms of seasickness every hour for 4 consecutive hours after ingestion of 1 g of the drug or placebo.
(6) Seasickness had been a problem for a portion of the ex-fishermen.
(7) I don't know how to describe the shaking, but when it ended I just felt seasick.
(8) In a double-blind randomized placebo trial, the effect of the powdered rhizome of ginger (Zingiber officinale) was tested on seasickness.
(9) This suggests a reduction of compensatory capacity of the brain circulation system which can result in a change of the brain tissue water balance under the effects leading to an alteration of cerebral outflow and sometimes accompanying seasickness.
(10) On his first visit to Europe, following a long voyage across the Atlantic that left him seasick and disorientated, Woolworth's ship docked in Liverpool and he chose the city, then at the height of its economic power, as the location for his first British store.
(11) This review describes current concepts concerning the aetiology and nature of seasickness.
(12) I felt seasick," she says, and things have only slightly improved.
(13) The wind is not blowing hard, but enough to make a lot of the passengers seasick.
(14) A Seasickness Questionnaire, based on a peer-rating technique, was administered to 172 Israeli Navy sailors.
(15) Cans were cracked open, whisky bottles passed round and only one person was seasick.
(16) We conclude that VOR gain at 0.01 Hz may serve as a physiologic correlate helping to predict seasickness susceptibility, and that the increase in phase lead at 0.02 Hz may mark the habituation process to sea conditions.
(17) Leadership and seasickness management should be requisite survival training for all oil rig workers.
(18) Seasickness is a real challenge for work that requires precision, complexity and involves heavy machinery: it's not to be underestimated."
(19) Five mobile offshore drilling unit disasters--Alexander L. Kielland, Ocean Ranger, Vinland, Ocean Odyssey, and Rowan Gorilla I--were studied to assess the degree to which seasickness occurs and endangers the lives of occupants of totally-enclosed motor-propelled survival craft (TEMPSC).
(20) The purpose of this study was to investigate possible relationships between VOR and future susceptibility and habituation to seasickness.