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| aeroembolism |
nitrogen or air bubbles in the bloodstream, caused by severe decompression, surgery, or injury, and resulting in severe pain and sometimes convulsions; bends; decompression sickness; caisson disease. |
| ailment |
a sickness or disorder, usu. physical; illness. |
| airsickness |
motion sickness, usu. including nausea, caused by air travel. |
| carsick |
suffering from motion sickness during car travel. |
| crapulence |
sickness caused by excessiveness in drinking or eating. [1/2 definitions] |
| cyclizine |
an antihistamine used to combat nausea and motion sickness. |
| dimenhydrinate |
a crystalline antihistamine used to control motion sickness and allergies. |
| disease |
an abnormal physical or mental condition that causes an organism to function wrongly; illness; sickness. [1/2 definitions] |
| illness |
the state or condition of being ill; sickness. [2 definitions] |
| loco |
the sickness that eating locoweed causes in livestock; loco disease. [1/3 definitions] |
| morbid |
in an unhealthy, gloomy mental state; preoccupied with sickness, abnormality, or death. [2/3 definitions] |
| radiation sickness |
sickness induced by overexposure to ionizing radiation such as x-rays or gamma rays, resulting in nausea, diarrhea, bleeding, hair loss, sterility, and often death. |
| resilience |
the capacity to withstand and recover quickly from difficulty, sickness, or the like. [1/2 definitions] |
| resilient |
able to withstand and recover quickly from difficulty, sickness, or the like. [1/2 definitions] |
| sickly |
of, pertaining to, associated with, or arising from sickness. [1/5 definitions] |
| the bends |
(used with a sing. or pl. verb) a serious, sometimes fatal condition of divers who ascend too rapidly, resulting from the formation of nitrogen bubbles in the bloodstream; decompression sickness. |
| tsetse fly |
a bloodsucking African fly, some species of which transmit sleeping sickness and other infections to humans and domestic animals. |
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