(n) illness that can occur to persons exposed to ozone in high-altitude aircraft; characterized by sleepiness and headache and chest pains and itchiness

radiation sickness

(n) syndrome resulting from exposure to ionizing radiation (e.g., exposure to radioactive chemicals or to nuclear explosions); low doses cause diarrhea and nausea and vomiting and sometimes loss of hair; greater exposure can cause sterility and cataracts and some forms of cancer and other diseases; severe exposure can cause death within hours, Syn. radiation, radiation syndrome, Example:he was suffering from radiation

seasickness

(n) motion sickness experienced while traveling on water, Syn. naupathia, mal de mer

serum sickness

(n) a delayed allergic reaction to the injection of an antiserum caused by an antibody reaction to an antigen in the donor serum, Syn. serum disease

sickness

(n) defectiveness or unsoundness, Example:drugs have become a sickness they cannot cure; a great sickness of his judgment

sleeping sickness

(n) an encephalitis that was epidemic between 1915 and 1926; symptoms include paralysis of the extrinsic eye muscle and extreme muscular weakness, Syn. sleepy sickness, encephalitis lethargica, lethargic encephalitis, epidemic encephalitis

sweating sickness

(n) a disease of cattle (especially calves)

sweating sickness

(n) epidemic in the 15th and 16th centuries and characterized by profuse sweating and high mortality, Syn. miliary fever

chlorosis

(n) iron deficiency anemia in young women; characterized by weakness and menstrual disturbances and a green color to the skin, Syn. greensickness

despondency

(n) feeling downcast and disheartened and hopeless, Syn. disconsolateness, despondence, heartsickness

illness

(n) impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism, Syn. sickness, unwellness, malady, Ant. wellness

nausea

(n) the state that precedes vomiting, Syn. sickness

sick benefit

(n) money paid (by the government) to someone who is too ill to work, Syn. sickness benefit

trembles

(n) disease of livestock and especially cattle poisoned by eating certain kinds of snakeroot, Syn. milk sickness

The Collaborative International Dictionary of English (GCIDE) v.0.53 Collaborative International Dictionary (GCIDE)

Aerial sickness

. A sickness felt by aëronauts due to high speed of flights and rapidity in changing altitudes, combining some symptoms of mountain sickness and some of seasickness. The nauseous symptoms similar to seasickness experienced by passengers in pressurized aircraft is called air sickness. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

Air sickness

. A vomiting or nauseous feeling similar to seasickness experienced by passengers in aircraft; -- it is caused by motion and distinguished from the effects of low air pressure, as it may also occur in the pressurized cabins of large aircraft. [ PJC ]

iron sickness

n. (Naut.) The the process of deterioration afflicting a ship that is iron-sick. [ PJC ]

Love-sickness

n. The state of being love-sick. [ 1913 Webster ]

Milk sickness

. (Veter., Med.) A peculiar malignant disease, occurring in parts of the western United States, and affecting certain kinds of farm stock (esp. cows), and persons using the meat or dairy products of infected cattle. Its chief symptoms in man are uncontrollable vomiting, obstinate constipation, pain, and muscular tremors. Its origin in cattle has been variously ascribed to the presence of certain plants in their food, and to polluted water. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

Seasickness

n. The peculiar sickness, characterized by nausea and prostration, which is caused by the pitching or rolling of a vessel. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sickness

n. [ AS. seócness. ] 1. The quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; sisease or malady. [ 1913 Webster ]

I do lament the sickness of the king. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Trust not too much your now resistless charms;
Those, age or sickness soon or late disarms. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Nausea; qualmishness; as, sickness of stomach. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Illness; disease; malady. See Illness. [ 1913 Webster ]

space sickness

n. a group of symptoms, prominently nausea, but sometimes including lethargy, headache, and sweating, occuring under the weightless conditions of space flight. [ RHUD ] [ PJC ]

German-English: TU-Chemnitz DING Dictionary DING DE-EN Dictionary

Autokrankheit { f }

carsickness

Bergkrankheit { f }

mountain sickness

Betriebskrankenkasse { f }

company sickness insurance scheme; employer-based health insurance

Dekompressionskrankheit { f }

bends; decompression sickness

Fallsucht { f }

falling sickness

Heimweh { n }

homesickness

Höhenkrankheit { f }

altitude sickness

Krankengeld { n } | Krankengelder { pl }

sickness benefit | sickness benefits

Krankheit { f }

sickness

Krankheit { f }; Übelkeit { f }

sickness

Liebeskrankheit { f }

lovesickness

Luftkrankheit { f }; Flugkrankheit { f }

airsickness

Schlafkrankheit { f }

sleeping sickness

Seekrankheit { f }

sea sickness

Seekrankheit { f }

seasickness

Strahlenkrankheit { f }

radiation sickness

Weltraumkrankheit { f }

space sickness

Übelkeit { f }; Nausea { f } [ med. ]

feeling of sickness; sick feeling; nausea

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