. 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
. 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 ]
n. (Naut.) The the process of deterioration afflicting a ship that is iron-sick. [ PJC ]
n. The state of being love-sick. [ 1913 Webster ]
. (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. ]
n. The peculiar sickness, characterized by nausea and prostration, which is caused by the pitching or rolling of a vessel. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ AS. seócness. ]
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 ]
n. a group of symptoms, prominently nausea, but sometimes including lethargy, headache, and sweating, occuring under the weightless conditions of space flight. [ RHUD ] [ PJC ]