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Multi-word Results
| decompression sickness |
a painful and sometimes fatal condition caused by the formation of nitrogen bubbles in the blood, resulting from returning to atmospheric pressure too quickly from deep water or a compression chamber; aeroembolism; bends. |
| falling sickness |
see "epilepsy." |
| morning sickness |
nausea and sometimes vomiting in the early part of the day during the first several months of pregnancy. |
| motion sickness |
nausea and dizziness induced by the motion of an airplane, car, ship, or the like. |
| mountain sickness |
nausea, weakness, and difficulty in breathing at high altitudes, caused by lack of oxygen. |
| 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. |
| sleeping sickness |
a usu. fatal infectious disease found in tropical Africa, characterized by fever, weakness, and tremors, and transmitted by tsetse flies. [2 definitions] |
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