dizziness

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Headaches & dizziness
aura
dizzily
dizziness
dizzying
dizzyingly
fragile
giddy
hangover
headache
headachy
light-headedly
muzzily
muzziness
reel
sick headache
splitting
swim
swimmy
thumping
tinnitus

vertigo | American Dictionary

vertigo
noun[ U ]
 medicalus/ˈvɜr·t̬ɪˌɡoʊ/
a feeling that everything is spinning around, causing you to be unable to balance and therefore to fall

Examples of vertigo

vertigo
The procedure is repeated until vertigo is no longer provoked.
Confusion, prostration, diarrhea, pneumonia and vertigo are less frequently reported.
However, symptoms of sudden or progressive hearing loss, tinnitus, vertigo and other cranial neuropathies may be overshadowed by those from other metastases.
Sudden onset of acute rotation vertigo lasting several days with gradual resolution would suggest a labyrinthitis of viral or vascular aetiology.
Patients present with vertigo and/or progressive, sudden or fluctuating hearing loss.
Patients with infarction in the lateral brain stem or cerebellum typically will have profound imbalance along with vertigo.
This causes movement of the cupula and a brief paroxysm of vertigo and nystagmus.
However, as a secondary symptom to other vestibular cause of vertigo/dizziness, we find it more common.
The onset is acute, with continuous vertigo lasting for more than 24 hours.
It seizes us with vertigo at the most dangerous places and with the most dangerous consequences.
Attacks of brief vertigo, nausea and imbalance provoked by turning over in bed, lying down, sitting up from lying position, extending or flexing the neck.
I think there's value in this feeling of vertigo, this realisation that causality or determination is precarious and incomplete.
A randomized controlled trial of exercise therapy for dizziness and vertigo in primary care.
These symptoms include dysarthria, vertigo, tinnitus, ataxia, bilateral paresis or paresthesia.
An isolated acute episode of rotational vertigo in a known arteriopath may represent a vascular labyrinthitis.
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