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sickness /sick·ness/ (sik´nes) disease. African sleeping sickness African trypanosomiasis. air sickness airsickness. altitude sickness a condition due to difficulty adjusting to lowered oxygen pressure at high altitudes; it may take the form of mountain sickness, high-altitude pulmonary edema, or cerebral edema. car sickness carsickness. decompression sickness divers' paralysis; joint pain, respiratory problems, skin lesions, and neurologic signs, due to rapid reduction of air pressure in a person's environment. green tobacco sickness transient, recurring nicotine poisoning in tobacco harvesters. high-altitude sickness altitude s. milk sickness an acute, often fatal disease in humans after they ingest milk, milk products, or flesh of cattle or sheep who have eaten certain toxic plants; human disease is marked by weakness, anorexia, vomiting, and sometimes muscular tremors. morning sickness nausea of early pregnancy. motion sickness nausea and malaise due to unaccustomed motion, such as in travel by airplane, automobile, ship, or train. mountain sickness a type of high altitude sickness with oliguria, dyspnea, blood pressure and pulse rate changes, and neurological disorders. radiation sickness a condition resulting from exposure to a whole-body dose of over 1 gray of ionizing radiation and characterized by the symptoms of the acute radiation syndrome. sea sickness seasickness. serum sickness a hypersensitivity reaction after administration of foreign serum or serum proteins, marked by urticaria, arthralgia, edema, and lymphadenopathy. sleeping sickness increasing lethargy and drowsiness due to a disease process such as African trypanosomiasis or types of encephalomyelitis.
sickness, n condition in which an individual experiences bodily malfunction or discomfort. sickness the role assumed by ill humans; not a term applicable to animals. sickness Disease. See Air sickness, Altitude decompression sickness, Cybersickness, Decompression sickness, English sweating sickness, Ghost sickness, Green tobacco sickness, Inner ear decompression sickness, Jamaican vomiting sickness, Meditation sickness, Monday morning sickness, Morning sickness, Motion sickness, Mountain sickness, Seasickness, Serum sickness, Space sickness. Patient discussion about Sea sickness. Q. How Can You Treat Morning Sickness? My sister has been suffering from morning sickness all throughout her first 4 weeks of pregnancy. Is there a way to treat morning sickness? A. this is the third time today i recommend this amazing site for pregnant women, it's the "American college for Obstetricians and Gynecologists" website and it has pamphlets about any pregnancy question you'll have: http://www.acog.org/publications/patient_education/bp126.cfm take care :) Q. If we can get sick all the time- why not take antibiotics all the time and prevent it? I can take antibiotics to my child and prevent his from getting all sort of diseases. And if so- what should I give him? A. the problem with abuising antibiotics is that, bacteries build resistance to them, and then when you really need them they wont work. Q. can dogs suffer from the same illnesses we do? I work with lots of dogs. I have a few with problems that doesn't fit pets, I guess... I think the pointer has autism. can it be?? and if they eat too much sugar (cause I have one who go crazy for it), can they get diabetes? I know it sounds weird but I really hope you can help me.. A. Dogs can suffer from cancer and some others illness human suffers. After all we have 75% genes in common. They can also duffer from problem in the nervous system, that may lead you to think it's like autism, but i'm not sure it's the same.. Read more or ask a question about Sea sicknessTry do more research on it on the search engine and on the web. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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