(n.) Giddiness; a whirling sensation in the head; vertigo.
Example Sentences:
(1) Frequency of symptoms like dizziness, headache, lachrymation, burning sensation in eyes, nausea and anorexia, etc, were much more in the exposed workers.
(2) Symptoms include nausea, vomiting, dizziness, and prostration.
(3) Implantation of a single-chamber pacemaker was planned in an 83-year-old woman with sick-sinus syndrome causing dizziness, bradycardia and tachycardia.
(4) After controlling for the effects of active and passive exposure to cigarette smoke, problems with the home heating system (odds ratio 9.6; p less than 0.03) and the presence of cohabitants with concurrent headache or dizziness (odds ratio 21.6; p less than 0.0001) were associated with an increased risk of a carboxyhemoglobin greater than 10 percent.
(5) Most of the animals had damage in the third and fourth turns (22) and a minority of these had dizziness and destruction nystagmus (3).
(6) A 46-year-old man with hepatoma was admitted with chief complaints of headache, fever and dizziness.
(7) Among the exposed still employed a trend towards a higher prevalence of dizziness was found.
(8) A subjective feeling of dizziness was observed by all volunteers, but it was not possible to make a correlation between this and the drug levels in this study.
(9) Vestibular symptoms were pronounced and, although compensation was not delayed, positional dizziness and instability usually persisted for several months and occasionally for a year or more.
(10) Diminished salivary flow was significantly greater with amitriptyline, as were complaints of dry mouth, somnolence, dizziness, and headache.
(11) 4 cases of drug-induced side effects were reported: dizziness and mild dyspepsia.
(12) During monotherapy, side-effects occurred in 12% of the patients (tachycardia, headache, weakness, dizziness).
(13) Consistent with these measures, derived from self-reported data, physician-diagnosed measures also indicate a greater vulnerability of unemployed individuals to serious physical ailments such as heart trouble, pain in heart and chest, high blood pressure, spells of faint-dizziness, bone-joint problems and hypertension.
(14) Dizziness in three with insomnia and vomiting in one patient complicated the treatment.
(15) Post-concussional symptoms, such as headache, dizziness and irritability, are thought to result from the emotional stress associated with decreased cognitive performance after a head injury.
(16) A standardised test of psychopathology (CCEI) was administered to tinnitus sufferers some of whom also complained of dizziness.
(17) Eight subjects reported subjective feelings of light-headedness or slight dizziness, which are not typical after slower absorption from nicotine gum or skin patches.
(18) He has broken four Guinness world records, most of them for speed–mad 100-metre dashes across dizzyingly high wires, and frequently appears on Chinese television.
(19) Several subjects reported light-headedness and dizziness during rest intervals.
(20) A 55-year old male patient, with dizzy spells during everyday activity and a complete right bundle branch block as the sole electrocardiographic abnormality, reproducibly demonstrated tachycardia-dependent Mobitz Type II- and 2:1 second degree atrioventricular block.
Giddy
Definition:
(superl.) Having in the head a sensation of whirling or reeling about; having lost the power of preserving the balance of the body, and therefore wavering and inclined to fall; lightheaded; dizzy.
(superl.) Promoting or inducing giddiness; as, a giddy height; a giddy precipice.
(superl.) Bewildering on account of rapid turning; running round with celerity; gyratory; whirling.
(superl.) Characterized by inconstancy; unstable; changeable; fickle; wild; thoughtless; heedless.
(v. i.) To reel; to whirl.
(v. t.) To make dizzy or unsteady.
Example Sentences:
(1) Twenty workers promptly developed symptoms (e.g., nausea, vomiting, abdominal discomfort, diarrhea, giddiness, lassitude, headache, cough, shortness of breath) that typically lasted a few hours but persisted 1-2 days in 7 cases.
(2) Everyone wants to forget that Britain’s biggest bank, HSBC, was caught, and admitted, laundering Chapo Guzmán’s giddy profits , as was Wachovia bank , a subsidiary of Wells Fargo: hundreds of billions of dollars of Sinaloa cartel blood money, handled with effective impunity inasmuch as no one in either instance was prosecuted, let alone jailed – indeed, most were promoted.
(3) In some parts of the country, then, the giddiness sown by a hyped-up recovery and rising house prices – up by an annual average of 7.7% , according to Halifax, with George Osborne's Help To Buy scheme having played its part – is evidently doing its work.
(4) Giddiness, nausea and vomiting were the common adverse effects observed.
(5) In the event it was Campbell who took the gold, producing a display of controlled long range aggression to secure Team GB's 28th gold medal of these rather giddy Games.
(6) More giddy blog posts may lie ahead: All Things Digital claimed in October that Snapchat is in talks about yet another funding round valuing the company at a startling $3.6bn , with a lead investor potentially being "a strategic party from Asia" – later fingered as internet firm Tencent.
(7) The mother country would have a hard time refuting the charge that the English just don't take the international game seriously, however giddy St George turns every couple of years.
(8) Perhaps giddy with the excitement of it all, Djokovic produces a couple of unforced errors to give Nadal a break point.
(9) The giddy rise in house prices, too, should be examined skeptically.
(10) Hypertension (n = 50) and the related symptom of headache (n = 40), dyspnea (n = 24), and giddiness (n = 20) were common at presentation.
(11) The giddiness was characterized by a late onset and was usually present even at 24 hours.
(12) Tuesday Thornberry and her staff have recently been upgraded to a new parliamentary office, and are giddy about it.
(13) Photograph: Dreamworks Yelchin wasn’t as classically handsome as Depp; he was easy on the eye without having traditional film-star looks, and I don’t recall his name cropping up in the sort of messageboards bursting with giddy declarations of devotion to Tom Hiddleston or Tom Hardy or Idris Elba.
(14) I was so giddy with success that I stayed for a few drinks and ended up missing my train home.
(15) The authors' findings permit a conclusion that the risk of ethmozine overdosage leading to undesirable side effects (dryness in the mouth, noise in the ears, a 'net' in eyes; giddiness, nausea, vomiting) is very high when routine ethmozine doses are administered to patients with grave (Stages II-III) impairments of liver function; this is explained by (1) reduced rate of ethmozine biotransformation, this resulting in a heightened concentration of the drug in the blood, and (2) by an increase of the drug free fraction concentration due to its reduced ability to bind with the blood plasma proteins.
(16) She shows us photographs of him as a giddy young boy, as a proud paratrooper, and letters in which he talks about how well he’s doing in training.
(17) At last, as the sun dipped behind snow-capped mountains, we rolled down Leadville’s cool, still Main Street, the lack of oxygen making us feel giddy.
(18) A giddy celebration of the “new politics” this conference may officially be, but it is also an old-style beauty contest in which the party is already sizing up the potential contenders for the succession should Uncle Jez fall under a composite motion.
(19) I mean, you weren’t so giddy when The Container Store started trading last week .
(20) A golden moon hung over the city, and as night deepened the crowd lounging off Hope Street grew giddy.