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Definition of Seasickness
1. Noun. Motion sickness experienced while traveling on water.
Generic synonyms: Kinetosis, Motion Sickness
Derivative terms: Seasick
Definition of Seasickness
1. n. The peculiar sickness, characterized by nausea and prostration, which is caused by the pitching or rolling of a vessel.
Definition of Seasickness
1. Noun. Nausea, dizziness etc caused by the motion of a ship; a form of motion sickness. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Seasickness
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Medical Definition of Seasickness
1. A form of motion sickness caused by the motion of a floating platform, such as a ship, boat, or raft. Synonym: mal de mer, naupathia, vomitus marinus. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Seasickness
Literary usage of Seasickness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Nostrums and Quackery: Articles on the Nostrum Evil and Quackery Reprinted by American Medical Association, Arthur Joseph Cramp (1912)
"The report follows: "Brush's Remedy for seasickness" is sold in five-ounce bottles
in which are blown the name and the use of the preparation. ..."
2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1908)
"Certain patients under this treatment feel no symptoms of seasickness and are
able to eat with gusto and to go about the deck at will; ..."
3. Nostrums and Quackery: Articles on the Nostrum Evil and Quackery Reprinted by American Medical Association (1912)
"The report follows: "Brush's Remedy for seasickness" is sold in five-ounce bottles
in which are blown the name and the use of the preparation. ..."
4. Naval Hygiene by James Chambers Pryor (1918)
"Its obscure etiology has led to much speculation concerning the production of
seasickness. It has been held to be due to disturbances in the semicircular ..."
5. Medical Record by George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman (1896)
"THE literature of seasickness relating both to pathology and treatment is so
extensive and so comprehensive that there is, I apprehend, nothing new to be ..."
6. Practical Homeopathic Therapeutics by Willis Alonzo Dewey (1901)
"seasickness. Petroleum. This is by all odds the most frequently indicated remedy
... This is perhaps one of the oldest homoeopathic remedies in seasickness. ..."
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