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dizziness

nounB2Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #8,583 of 15,258neutral

Dizziness is the feeling that everything is spinning. Sudden dizziness, a wave of dizziness, dizziness on standing.

Doctors separate it carefully: true spinning is vertigo and usually comes from the inner ear, and light-headedness on standing is usually blood pressure. Sudden dizziness with weakness or slurred speech needs emergency help. The Old English word also meant foolish.

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Definitions of dizziness

  1. 1noundizzinessThe feeling that everything is spinning.B2

    “Standing up too quickly can cause dizziness.”

dizziness is a sensation.

Where it comes from

Old English dysignes means folly, from dysig, foolish. The sense of unsteadiness came later.

  1. Old English

    dysiġnes — dizziness, folly, foolishness, blasphemy

  2. Middle English

    disynes

  3. English, today

    dizziness

From Middle English disynes, duysenes, from Old English dysiġnes (“dizziness, folly, foolishness, blasphemy”), equivalent to dizzy + ness.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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dizziness in the wild

  • The symptoms of respiratory alkalosis include dizziness, tingling in the lips, hands, or feet, headache, weakness, fainting, and seizures.

    Hyperventilation

  • Immediately or shortly after mild fluid loss (from blood donation, diarrhea, vomiting, bleeding from trauma, etc.), one may experience headache, fatigue, weakness, dizziness, or thirst.

    Hypovolemia

  • Common side effects include dizziness, dry mouth, nausea, and low potassium levels.

    Quinethazone

  • In addition to dizziness, the individual may feel as though their head is weightless.

    Lightheadedness

  • Vertigo is the most common type of dizziness.

    Vertigo

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