(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.
Tizzy
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) This sent a faction of Veronica Mars fans into a Team Logan or Team Piz tizzy.
(2) For an album that was audibly in a dreadful tizzy about the state of the world, OK Computer's long-awaited follow-up managed to sound enormously pleased with itself.
(3) She only recently started adding captions, preferring to upload an image and let her fans work themselves up into a tizzy of double-taps, heart-eye emojis and frantic comments professing their love for her.
(4) But after an incident involving a “quadcopter” and a possibly drunken government employee sent the White House into lockdown and DC into a tizzy this week, at least one unmanned vehicle company is preparing to assist the feds.
(5) All of which, predictably, has got Hollywood in a bit of a tizzy.
(6) Jonas Clark of Manchester Township, New Jersey – in the area where Sandy was projected to come ashore – stood outside a convenience store, calmly sipping a coffee and wondering why people were working themselves "into a tizzy".