(n.) Seasickness; hence, any similar sickness of the stomach accompanied with a propensity to vomit; qualm; squeamishness of the stomach; loathing.
Example Sentences:
(1) She had three attacks of severe migrainous headache accompanied with nausea and vomiting within three weeks.
(2) Most survivors reported a range of problems that they attributed to having had cancer: 35%, proven or perceived infertility; 24%, sexual problems; 31%, health and life insurance problems; 26%, a negative socioeconomic effect; and 51%, conditioned nausea, associated with visual or olfactory reminders of chemotherapy.
(3) Among the major symptoms were gastrointestinal disorders such as subjective and objective anorexia, nausea and vomiting.
(4) A 68-year-old male was hospitalized because of headache, nausea, and disturbance of consciousness.
(5) 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).
(6) Frequency of symptoms like dizziness, headache, lachrymation, burning sensation in eyes, nausea and anorexia, etc, were much more in the exposed workers.
(7) Mean run time and total ST time were faster with CE (by 1.4 and 1.2 min) although not significantly different (P less than 0.06 and P less than 0.10) from P. Subjects reported no significant difference in nausea, fullness, or stomach upset with CE compared to P. General physiological responses were similar for each drink during 2 h of multi-modal exercise in the heat; however, blood glucose, carbohydrate utilization, and exercise intensity at the end of a ST may be increased with CE fluid replacement.
(8) Other toxicity was mild and included nausea and vomiting, diarrhea, mucositis, hepatic dysfunction, and cardiac arrhythmias.
(9) The time to first episode of moderate to severe nausea was significantly longer in the granisetron group (P = 0.03).
(10) Symptoms include nausea, vomiting, dizziness, and prostration.
(11) Adverse effects included nausea, light-headedness, dyskinesias, and hallucinations, all of which abated after the Sinemet dose was reduced.
(12) Significantly more slow acetylators stopped treatment because of nausea or vomiting, or both, but serious toxicity was not confined to either group.
(13) Postoperative nausea and vomiting have been associated with the use of intravenous narcotics, and nitrous oxide may worsen the emetic effects of narcotics.
(14) Side-effects (pruritus, nausea, vomiting, drowsiness) were also noted.
(15) Fourteen of 15 patients had a reduction in nausea and vomiting on THC as compared to placebo.
(16) Nausea, generally mild and of short duration, increased from start (30%) to end of radiotherapy (54%).
(17) A bolus of 0.1 mg.kg-1 followed by a continuous infusion of 1 mg.kg-1.hr-1 was effective in both prevention and treatment of nausea and vomiting.
(18) Significant toxicities included drug-induced hepatitis along with moderate nausea and vomiting.
(19) No subject reported side effects of oxitropium, as compared to three subjects reporting nausea, vomiting and tremors after theophylline.
(20) Nausea and heartburn occurred in 3 cases only and were controlled by reducing the dosage.
Seasickness
Definition:
(n.) The peculiar sickness, characterized by nausea and prostration, which is caused by the pitching or rolling of a vessel.
Example Sentences:
(1) It cannot be established whether or not seasickness contributed to the cause of death in the case of the Ocean Ranger victims, but it did occur in 75% or more of TEMPSC occupants in the other four rig disasters.
(2) Titanic's trailer is two minutes 37 seconds of lifeboat-related stampeding intercut with women swishing about in big hats doing seasick Dowager Countess expressions.
(3) This was soon accompanied by other “medicinal” drinks such as the gimlet, to avoid scurvy on ship, and pink gin, which was said to help seasickness.
(4) Thousands of other peacetime marine incidents were reviewed and a literature search was conducted to assess the same seasickness problem.
(5) Eighty naval cadets, unaccustomed to sailing in heavy seas reported during voyages on the high seas, symptoms of seasickness every hour for 4 consecutive hours after ingestion of 1 g of the drug or placebo.
(6) Seasickness had been a problem for a portion of the ex-fishermen.
(7) I don't know how to describe the shaking, but when it ended I just felt seasick.
(8) In a double-blind randomized placebo trial, the effect of the powdered rhizome of ginger (Zingiber officinale) was tested on seasickness.
(9) This suggests a reduction of compensatory capacity of the brain circulation system which can result in a change of the brain tissue water balance under the effects leading to an alteration of cerebral outflow and sometimes accompanying seasickness.
(10) On his first visit to Europe, following a long voyage across the Atlantic that left him seasick and disorientated, Woolworth's ship docked in Liverpool and he chose the city, then at the height of its economic power, as the location for his first British store.
(11) This review describes current concepts concerning the aetiology and nature of seasickness.
(12) I felt seasick," she says, and things have only slightly improved.
(13) The wind is not blowing hard, but enough to make a lot of the passengers seasick.
(14) A Seasickness Questionnaire, based on a peer-rating technique, was administered to 172 Israeli Navy sailors.
(15) Cans were cracked open, whisky bottles passed round and only one person was seasick.
(16) We conclude that VOR gain at 0.01 Hz may serve as a physiologic correlate helping to predict seasickness susceptibility, and that the increase in phase lead at 0.02 Hz may mark the habituation process to sea conditions.
(17) Leadership and seasickness management should be requisite survival training for all oil rig workers.
(18) Seasickness is a real challenge for work that requires precision, complexity and involves heavy machinery: it's not to be underestimated."
(19) Five mobile offshore drilling unit disasters--Alexander L. Kielland, Ocean Ranger, Vinland, Ocean Odyssey, and Rowan Gorilla I--were studied to assess the degree to which seasickness occurs and endangers the lives of occupants of totally-enclosed motor-propelled survival craft (TEMPSC).
(20) The purpose of this study was to investigate possible relationships between VOR and future susceptibility and habituation to seasickness.