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Vertiginous


Definition:

  • (a.) Turning round; whirling; rotary; revolving; as, vertiginous motion.
  • (a.) Affected with vertigo; giddy; dizzy.

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.

Whirl


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To turn round rapidly; to cause to rotate with velocity; to make to revolve.
  • (v. t.) To remove or carry quickly with, or as with, a revolving motion; to snatch; to harry.
  • (v. i.) To be turned round rapidly; to move round with velocity; to revolve or rotate with great speed; to gyrate.
  • (v. i.) To move hastily or swiftly.
  • (v. t.) A turning with rapidity or velocity; rapid rotation or circumvolution; quick gyration; rapid or confusing motion; as, the whirl of a top; the whirl of a wheel.
  • (v. t.) Anything that moves with a whirling motion.
  • (v. t.) A revolving hook used in twisting, as the hooked spindle of a rope machine, to which the threads to be twisted are attached.
  • (v. t.) A whorl. See Whorl.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In the box the atmosphere is whirled round by a fan and hereby led over a layer of catalyst.
  • (2) Water contaminated by Myxosoma cerebralis was disinfected with ultraviolet irradiation to control whirling disease.
  • (3) But then this isn’t really a team yet, more a working model conjured out of the air by Klopp’s whirling hands on the touchline.
  • (4) It's tempting to see all this layering as a painstaking effort on Green's part to understand her husband's death, but it's clear she sees it more as an expression of the absence of meaning that has resulted from it, the wild and whirling words of grief.
  • (5) Antonio Valencia raced around like the winger of a few seasons ago; Danny Welbeck discovered an extra yard of pace and an ability to spin opponents; Wayne Rooney was once more the whirling team totem, the closest to Roy Keane the club has had since the Irishman departed nine years ago.
  • (6) In contrast to the more uniform localization of antigens 01 through 010 over the whole cell surface, antigens 011 and 012 are less strongly detectable on cell bodies than on processes and membranous whirls.
  • (7) The not yet solved and serious uncertainities which need priority in the research are, according to the speaker, the control of the amebiasis of hatchery rainbow trout, the incysted icthyophtiriasis of various fresh water fishes, the rainbow trout myxosomiasis (Whirling disease), and the argulosis of eel reared in brackish water lagoons.
  • (8) Pape Souaré’s substitution at half-time was presumably so Palace’s left-back could have his neck iced, so many times did he find himself whirling around in a funk trying to work out exactly where Mahrez had shimmied off to now.
  • (9) That it should take a young Anglo-Lebanese barrister, recently married to a Hollywood star, to reanimate the debate (in a whirl of camera-clicks and flash bulbs), says much about the times we live in.
  • (10) That’s when all the wealthy widows who live elsewhere the rest of the year flock to their Florida mansions and get caught up in a whirl of charity balls and dinners.
  • (11) The numerous internal membranous bodies, some of which arise from the plasma membrane of the vegetative hypha, may be vesicular, whirled, or convoluted.
  • (12) Based in the Netherlands, where he is artistic director of Toneelgroep Amsterdam , the country's foremost theatre company, he frequently whirls his productions through European cities.
  • (13) Eukaryotic cell structures have been detected consisting of lamella layers whirled around the intact rickettsiae.
  • (14) The frequency with which the word whirling and similar words (whirlall words) were used in Rorschach tests administered to 1154 medical students 20 to 35 years ago has been counted by computer.
  • (15) This angelic whirling is a perfect counterpoint to the earthly chanting.
  • (16) In addition, a high incidence 1) of micronodular hepatocellular whirling lesions with increased basophilia, 2) of other proliferative areas of altered cellularity and 3) of precancerous nodules was found in the livers of schistosome-infected mice treated with hycanthone.
  • (17) The main subjective complaint was vertigo (whirling; 93%).
  • (18) So the studios made sure that those who appeared on screen could not be perceived as gay, marrying them off in a whirl of publicity if necessary.
  • (19) Give the Aussie Eggs a whirl: poached free range eggs on toast with tomato, garlic and fresh basil.
  • (20) Typical alterations are the vascular lesions of the conjunctiva, the whirl-like opacities of the cornea, the wedge-shaped anterior opacities and the branching spokes of the lens, as well as the vascular lesions of the retina.

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