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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; illness. |
| airsickness |
motion sickness, usu. including nausea, caused by air travel. |
| bout |
a period or attack of sickness. [1/2 definitions] |
| bug |
(informal) a germ that causes disease or sickness. [1/6 definitions] |
| carsick |
suffering from motion sickness during car travel. |
| cold |
a common sickness that often causes coughing and a runny nose. [1/4 definitions] |
| common cold |
a common sickness that causes sneezing, sore throat, coughing, and a stuffy nose; cold. |
| condition |
a sickness or an unhealthy state of the body. [1/7 definitions] |
| 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 |
a condition that causes harm to the health of a person, animal, or plant; illness; sickness. |
| disorder |
a physical or mental sickness or ailment. [1/3 definitions] |
| health |
the condition of being without sickness or pain; fit [1/2 definitions] |
| healthy |
being free from sickness. [1/2 definitions] |
| illness |
a sickness or disease. |
| 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] |
| pale |
of a color that is lighter than usual because of sickness or emotion. [1/3 definitions] |
| preventive |
a medicine that keeps disease or sickness away. [1/3 definitions] |
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