What's the difference between megrim and vertigo?

Megrim


Definition:

  • (n.) A kind of sick or nevrous headache, usually periodical and confined to one side of the head.
  • (n.) A fancy; a whim; a freak; a humor; esp., in the plural, lowness of spirits.
  • (n.) A sudden vertigo in a horse, succeeded sometimes by unconsciousness, produced by an excess of blood in the brain; a mild form of apoplexy.
  • (n.) The British smooth sole, or scaldfish (Psetta arnoglossa).

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The results show that added neutral and oxidized lipids, even at high rancidity levels, do not affect shear resistances measured by the Kramer shear-compression cell in non-formaldehyde forming species such as megrim and sardine, over the frozen storage period.
  • (2) The effect of added cod liver oil and oxidized cod liver oil on the measurement of texture in minced hake (Merluccius merluccius L.), megrim (Lepidorhombus whiffiagonis W.) and sardine (Sardina pilchardus W.) has been measured during frozen storage (-18 degrees C).

Vertigo


Definition:

  • (n.) Dizziness or swimming of the head; an affection of the head in which objects, though stationary, appear to move in various directions, and the person affected finds it difficult to maintain an erect posture; giddiness.
  • (n.) Any one of numerous species of small land snails belonging to the genus Vertigo, having an elongated or conical spiral shell and usually teeth in the aperture.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Inner Ear Decompression Sickness (IEDCS)--manifested by tinnitus, vertigo, nausea, vomiting, and hearing loss--is usually associated with deep air or mixed gas dives, and accompanied by other CNS symptoms of decompression sickness (DCS).
  • (2) Most patients manifest either vertigo, tinnitus, or a variable hearing loss.
  • (3) Episodic vertigo secondary to an abnormal oculovestibular response was diagnosed.
  • (4) Borrelia infection is an etiological factor which should be considered in patients suffering from vertigo especially if positional nystagmus is present.
  • (5) Headache and vertigo were not linked with exposure to vibration in forestry and a significant part of the numbness reported may be due to the carpal tunnel syndrome.
  • (6) The vertigo could be caused by the inner ear ischemia, brainstem or both of them.
  • (7) Hearing improved in 5 (31%) of 16 patients, tinnitus decreased in 11 (85%) of 13, and vertigo improved in 6 (86%) of 7.
  • (8) Questionnaires assessing symptoms, disability and handicap, predisposition to anxiety, and current anxiety and depression were completed by 127 people attending neuro-otology clinics with a major complaint of vertigo or dysequilibrium.
  • (9) A 21-year-old man experienced sudden and intense rotational vertigo.
  • (10) In 61 patients altogether subjective side-effects could be recorded, such as vertigo (5%), palpitations (2.8%), fatigue (2%), insomina (1.9%), nausea (1.7%) and vomiting (0.8%).
  • (11) Vertigo and headache have been the most commonly reported side effects.
  • (12) Side-effects, particularly headache and vertigo, were less common in patients receiving ketoprofen.
  • (13) The data obtained in humans using a similar approach are presented and explanations for the mechanism related to hearing loss and vertigo in barotrauma are discussed.
  • (14) In an attempt to destroy selectively the affected peripheral vestibular labyrinth in patients with intractable vertigo as a result of Meniere's disease, a known quantity of streptomycin was introduced within the bony labyrinth following fenestration of the horizontal semicircular canal.
  • (15) There were five ears with vertigo and four without.
  • (16) The vertigo was controlled in 95% of the entire series, with 86% of hearing preservation, 6% of hearing improvement and 6% of hearing loss.
  • (17) The problem of the quantification of vertigo is still unsolved.
  • (18) The commonest entities (chronic pharyngitis, ceruminosis, vertigo, otitis) are studied and classified according to age, sex and other etiologic factors.
  • (19) Both had risk factors for cerebrovascular disease and other episodes of transient neurologic symptoms not associated with vertigo.
  • (20) In such cases hearing loss may be severe and vertigo may or may not be present.

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