sickness

sickness /sick·ness/ (sik´nes) disease.

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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.

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sick·ness (skns)

n.

1. The condition of being sick; illness.

2. A disease or an illness.

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sickness,

n condition in which an individual experiences bodily malfunction or discomfort.

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sickness

the role assumed by ill humans; not a term applicable to animals.