What's the difference between dizzy and unbalanced?

Dizzy


Definition:

  • (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.

Unbalanced


Definition:

  • (a.) Not balanced; not in equipoise; having no counterpoise, or having insufficient counterpoise.
  • (a.) Not adjusted; not settled; not brought to an equality of debt and credit; as, an unbalanced account; unbalanced books.
  • (a.) Being, or being thrown, out of equilibrium; hence, disordered or deranged in sense; unsteady; unsound; as, an unbalanced mind.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In a newspaper interview last month, Shapps said the BBC needed to tackle what he said was a culture of secrecy, waste and unbalanced reporting if it hoped to retain the full £3.6bn raised by the licence fee after the current Royal Charter expires in 2016.
  • (2) The erythrocytes of subjects with moderate and severe alcoholic liver cirrhosis had an unbalanced antioxidant system (normal superoxide dismutase, low catalase and glutathione peroxidase activities, and low glutathione content).
  • (3) Deletions and unbalanced translocations of the short arm of chromosome 1 also were found in four cases, affecting band p32 in three of them.
  • (4) This unusual pattern of unbalanced growth may represent an adaptation by bdellovibrios to maximize their progeny yield from the determinate amount of substrate available within a given prey cell.
  • (5) Using 166 pedigrees, reported in nine series available in the literature (including our own), we conclude that balanced insertion cannot entirely explain the familial data, even if we allow for a reduced viability of unbalanced gametes.
  • (6) It has prolonged the recession and promoted a lopsided and unbalanced recovery which promises another collapse in the not-distant future.
  • (7) World economic growth becomes more unbalanced and the terms of trade widen.
  • (8) Sporulation occurs during the late logarithmic phase of a culture, a time of slow but unbalanced growth.
  • (9) These results suggest that the motor dysfunctions observed in MNU treated rats are induced by unbalanced output activities from Purkinje cells to motor neurons.
  • (10) The proportion of spermatozoa with an unbalanced form of the translocation was 53%.
  • (11) This result, associated with the enlarged flagellar pocket, suggests an unbalanced cytoplasmic exchange between exocytosis and endocytosis.
  • (12) This is the first example of a paternally-derived PWCR allele loss caused by an unbalanced translocation that has arisen de novo.
  • (13) In all cases abnormal clones present an apparently unbalanced karyotype, characterised by excess material.
  • (14) "The private sector and private sector leaders also need to realise that only agreements that are fair and mutually beneficial will stand the test of time because if it is unfair and unbalanced, a new leader will come in and throw it all out.
  • (15) The unbalanced growth detected in S. cerevisiae NCYC 86 under inositol deprivation might be due to an abnormal functioning of the cell membranes as a consequence of the deficiency in inositol-containing phospholipids.
  • (16) Complications from ARDS include stress ulcers, which occur when gastric aggressive and defensive functions become unbalanced.
  • (17) The proposita, carrier of the unbalanced form of the translocation, resulted partially monosomic for short arm of chromosome 8 (8p-) and partially trisomic for short arm of chromosome 13.
  • (18) Cytogenetic studies on a phenotypically normal fertile male revealed an unbalanced Y; 15 translocation.
  • (19) It is possible that the occurrence of the short period of "unbalanced growth" induced by such DNA damaging agents leads to filament formation.
  • (20) In language eerily familiar to student politicians across the land, Abetz continued: “The new managing director will inherit an unbalanced and largely centralised public broadcaster which has become a protection racket for the left ideology.” For decades the highly trusted public broadcaster has weathered a relentless stream of attacks by the crusaders of the (increasingly) hard right in Australia.