VERTIGO (vertigines, vertigoes)

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Irregular inflected forms: vertigines    , vertigoes   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does vertigo mean? 

• VERTIGO (noun)
  The noun VERTIGO has 1 sense:

1. a reeling sensation; a feeling that you are about to fall

  Familiarity information: VERTIGO used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VERTIGO (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A reeling sensation; a feeling that you are about to fall

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

dizziness; giddiness; lightheadedness; vertigo

Hypernyms ("vertigo" is a kind of...):

symptom ((medicine) any sensation or change in bodily function that is experienced by a patient and is associated with a particular disease)

Derivation:

vertiginous (having or causing a whirling sensation; liable to falling)

 Context examples 

Exposure to this substance irritates the skin and can cause headaches, vertigo, and affects the blood. o-Anisidine hydrochloride is reasonably anticipated to be a human carcinogen.

(o-Anisidine Hydrochloride, NCI Thesaurus)

Signs and symptoms include hearing loss, vertigo, nausea, and tinnitus.

(Inner Ear Infection, NCI Thesaurus)

Signs and symptoms include pain, ear discharge, ear fullness, hearing loss, vertigo, nausea, and vomiting.

(Ear Infection, NCI Thesaurus)

Symptoms include facial pain, chronic allergies, dizziness, neck pain, ear pain and vertigo.

(Cervicocranial Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)

If you feel that the room is spinning, you have vertigo.

(Dizziness and Vertigo, NIH)

Inflammation of the ear, which may be marked by pain, fever, abnormalities of hearing, hearing loss, tinnitus, and vertigo.

(Ear Infection, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

It is allowed, that senates and great councils are often troubled with redundant, ebullient, and other peccant humours; with many diseases of the head, and more of the heart; with strong convulsions, with grievous contractions of the nerves and sinews in both hands, but especially the right; with spleen, flatus, vertigos, and deliriums; with scrofulous tumours, full of fetid purulent matter; with sour frothy ructations: with canine appetites, and crudeness of digestion, besides many others, needless to mention.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)