What's the difference between vertiginate and vertigo?

Vertiginate


Definition:

  • (a.) Turned round; giddy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Labour’s vertiginous decline in Scotland has shrivelled what used to be the primary unionist party north of the border.
  • (2) We report on the therapeutic effect of a combination of piracetam and dihydroergocristine in 55 vertiginous patients, of both sexes, between 20 and 67 years of age, from different causes (not scheduled for surgery).
  • (3) Vestibular nerve section, however, converts this active lesion to a static peripheral lesion, allowing for brainstem compensation and cessation of optokinetic-induced vertiginous symptoms.
  • (4) Peripheral labyrinthine abnormalities are responsible for the majority of vertiginous symptoms.
  • (5) Its infamous clubs – The Viper Room, Whisky A Go Go – are the backdrops for a thousand rock memoirs; its vertiginous hills contain more celebrity homes per square mile than anywhere else in the world.
  • (6) • Rorbu for four from £140 a night, svinoya.no Grande Hytteutleige, Geirangerfjord Facebook Twitter Pinterest Waterfalls, vertiginous green slopes and a meandering, idyllic waterway explain why Unesco-protected Geirangerfjord is one of Norway’s premier tourist spots.
  • (7) In the acute, vertiginous phase of the disease, the VOR time constant was reduced but was almost normalized 1 year later, both among patients who regained normal caloric side-difference and among those who did not.
  • (8) There is no question that dizziness and vertiginous-like symptoms occur in children.
  • (9) In this group, the 1985 guidelines indicate that only 35% of the patients had significant relief of their vertiginous symptoms and 47% had hearing loss greater than 10 dB postoperatively.
  • (10) The case of a sixty years old man with vague vertiginous feeling, headache and moderate ocular troubles is presented.
  • (11) The test was performed in Ménière's disease (16 cases), other vertiginous disorders (23 cases) and normal subjects (10 cases).
  • (12) Since the vestibulospinal level of vestibular function is frequently neglected in the evaluation of vertiginous patients, we developed a new posture equilibrometer for recording body swaying X (left-right) and Y (fore-aft) components of angular displacement, velocity, and acceleration with its transducer on the head of the subject.
  • (13) The movement of the body's center of gravity was calculated in normal subjects and in vertiginous patients by using a strain gauge platform system and a ditigal computer.
  • (14) Afterwards he drove us into the mountains, taking us along vertiginous dirt roads in his 4x4, to the places where he kept his hives.
  • (15) Berlin: The Land of Cockaigne by Heinrich Mann Mann, brother of Thomas, wrote Berlin in the tradition of the bildungsroman , and the introduction to the 1929 English edition offers fair summary: “Andrew Zumsee rises steadily, jesuitically, through the coarse social strata of bourgeois Berlin, behind the skirts of women, via boudoir wire-pulling, to an hour of vertiginous triumph, or at least an illusion thereof.” Life, as in many of these novels, is speculative: “I don’t know what it is that they call transacting business; but it certainly doesn’t take much time … It’s a lazy man’s Heaven, a perfect land of Cockaigne.” 10.
  • (16) But with land prices rising vertiginously in overcrowded Delhi, officials say foreign investors are lining up to take part.
  • (17) You’re getting sacked in the morning,” also came down, unsparingly, from the most vertiginous part of the Leazes End.
  • (18) It is also true that the stakes couldn’t be more vertiginous for David Cameron.
  • (19) We observed the same results in other vertiginous disorders.
  • (20) These results corresponded with the clinical findings that the degree of Lpi increases prior to vertiginous episodes in Meniere's patients.

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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