(superl.) Having in the head a sensation of whirling, with a tendency to fall; vertiginous; giddy; hence, confused; indistinct.
(superl.) Causing, or tending to cause, giddiness or vertigo.
(superl.) Without distinct thought; unreflecting; thoughtless; heedless.
(v. t.) To make dizzy or giddy; to give the vertigo to; to confuse.
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.
Drowsy
Definition:
(superl.) Inclined to drowse; heavy with sleepiness; lethargic; dozy.
(superl.) Disposing to sleep; lulling; soporific.
(superl.) Dull; stupid.
Example Sentences:
(1) YOH shifted the healthy subjects' mood towards feeling panicked, elevated systolic blood pressure and plasma prolactin concentrations, reduced digit symbol substitution, and induced drowsiness and passiveness.
(2) Side-effects (pruritus, nausea, vomiting, drowsiness) were also noted.
(3) MIDAZOLAM IS SUPERIOR TO DIAZEPAM IN CERTAIN WAYS: it has a more rapid onset; produces greater anterograde amnesia, less postoperative drowsiness, less venous irritation and less likelihood of thrombophlebitis development.
(4) Drowsiness and altered taste perception were increased significantly over placebo only in the high-dose azelastine group.
(5) Long-acting drugs and techniques that are associated with excessive drowsiness or nausea and vomiting should not be utilized.
(6) At altitude, temazepam led to less wakefulness and to drowsy sleep--there were no prolonged sleep latencies.
(7) The lowest recovery rate was observed in drowsy patients operated on between 4 and 10 days from the hemorrhage.
(8) Fatigue, drowsiness, and attention were self-rated using visual analogue scales; oral temperature was self-measured and a letter cancellation test was performed.
(9) Experimental evidence shows that during drowsiness, disfacilitation in thalamic and cortical neurons (by partial removal of influences from mesopontine, posterior hypothalamic, and basal forebrain activating systems) may coexist with active hypnogenic mechanisms.
(10) Ethanol alone impaired manual dexterity, increased drowsiness, reduced 'clearheadedness' and also tended to reduce feelings of aggression.
(11) However, both isomers showed different effects on the EEG and animal's behavior following convulsions; e.g., the cocaine-induced convulsions were followed by low-voltage fast waves in the EEGs associated with behavioral hyperexcitation, while pseudococaine-induced convulsions were followed by high-voltage slow waves associated with behavioral depression and drowsiness with intermittent sleep.
(12) However, mice treated topically with spiperone, unlike those treated systemically, exhibited no drowsiness or other evidence of central nervous system effects.
(13) The drug reduced the frequency of transitions into wakefulness and stage 1 (drowsiness) and reduced the time spent in stage 1; there was a withdrawal rebound.
(14) Adverse reactions to phenothiazines, including hypotension, sedation, drowsiness, extrapyramidal symptoms, tardive dyskinesia, cardiac toxicity and agranulocytosis, are often more common and severe than those attributed to narcotic analgesics.
(15) Apomorphine produced severe drowsiness in the PPS patients.
(16) Patients who received lorazepam or oxazepam also experienced significantly more severe drowsiness than those patients receiving methylprednisolone (both P less than 0.001).
(17) Side effects (principally drowsiness, ataxia, headache) occurred mainly during the initiation of therapy and decreased during therapy.
(18) Adverse effects of H1 blockers on the brain, such as drowsiness, may be produced as a consequence of this inhibitory action.
(19) The differences included slower alpha and more theta during THC experiences, reminiscent of initial drowsiness EEG, and of some results in schizophrenia.
(20) Neurological examination on admission: The patient was in drowsy state, papilledema on the both sides and right hemiparesis including the face were noted.