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Aerial sickness
Aerial sickness A*["e]"ri*al sick"ness
A sickness felt by a["e]ronauts due to high speed of flights
and rapidity in changing altitudes, combining some symptoms
of mountain sickness and some of seasickness.
AirsicknessAirsick Air`sick`, a.
Affected with a["e]rial sickness. -- Air"sick`ness, n. BrainsicknessBrainsick Brain"sick`, a.
Disordered in the understanding; giddy; thoughtless. --
Brain"sick*ness, n. CropsicknessCropsick Crop"sick` (kr?"s?k`), a.
Sick from excess in eating or drinking. [Obs.] ``Cropsick
drunkards.' --Tate. -- Crop"sick`ness, n. [Obs.]
--Whitlock. Falling sicknessFalling Fall"ing, a. & n.
from Fall, v. i.
Falling away, Falling off, etc. See To fall away, To
fall off, etc., under Fall, v. i.
Falling band, the plain, broad, linen collar turning down
over the doublet, worn in the early part of the 17th
century.
Falling sickness (Med.), epilepsy. --Shak.
Falling star. (Astron.) See Shooting star.
Falling stone, a stone falling through the atmosphere; a
meteorite; an a["e]rolite.
Falling tide, the ebb tide.
Falling weather, a rainy season. [Colloq.] --Bartlett. Gall sicknessGall Gall, n.[OE. galle, gal, AS. gealla; akin to D. gal, OS.
& OHG. galla, Icel. gall, SW. galla, Dan. galde, L. fel, Gr.
?, and prob. to E. yellow. ? See Yellow, and cf. Choler]
1. (Physiol.) The bitter, alkaline, viscid fluid found in the
gall bladder, beneath the liver. It consists of the
secretion of the liver, or bile, mixed with that of the
mucous membrane of the gall bladder.
2. The gall bladder.
3. Anything extremely bitter; bitterness; rancor.
He hath . . . compassed me with gall and travail.
--Lam. iii. 5.
Comedy diverted without gall. --Dryden.
4. Impudence; brazen assurance. [Slang]
Gall bladder (Anat.), the membranous sac, in which the
bile, or gall, is stored up, as secreted by the liver; the
cholecystis. See Illust. of Digestive apparatus.
Gall duct, a duct which conveys bile, as the cystic duct,
or the hepatic duct.
Gall sickness, a remitting bilious fever in the
Netherlands. --Dunglison.
Gall of the earth (Bot.), an herbaceous composite plant
with variously lobed and cleft leaves, usually the
Prenanthes serpentaria. HomesicknessHomesick Home"sick`, a.
Pining for home; in a nostalgic condition. --
Home"sick`ness, n. Love-sickness
Love-sickness Love"-sick`ness, n.
The state of being love-sick.
Milk sicknessMilk Milk, n. [AS. meoluc, meoloc, meolc, milc; akin to
OFries. meloc, D. melk, G. milch, OHG. miluh, Icel. mj?ok,
Sw. mj["o]lk, Dan. melk, Goth. miluks, G. melken to milk,
OHG. melchan, Lith. milszti, L. mulgere, Gr. ?. ????. Cf.
Milch, Emulsion, Milt soft roe of fishes.]
1. (Physiol.) A white fluid secreted by the mammary glands of
female mammals for the nourishment of their young,
consisting of minute globules of fat suspended in a
solution of casein, albumin, milk sugar, and inorganic
salts. ``White as morne milk.' --Chaucer.
2. (Bot.) A kind of juice or sap, usually white in color,
found in certain plants; latex. See Latex.
3. An emulsion made by bruising seeds; as, the milk of
almonds, produced by pounding almonds with sugar and
water.
4. (Zo["o]l.) The ripe, undischarged spat of an oyster.
Condensed milk. See under Condense, v. t.
Milk crust (Med.), vesicular eczema occurring on the face
and scalp of nursing infants. See Eczema.
Milk fever.
(a) (Med.) A fever which accompanies or precedes the first
lactation. It is usually transitory.
(b) (Vet. Surg.) A form puerperal peritonitis in cattle;
also, a variety of meningitis occurring in cows after
calving.
Milk glass, glass having a milky appearance.
Milk knot (Med.), a hard lump forming in the breast of a
nursing woman, due to obstruction to the flow of milk and
congestion of the mammary glands.
Milk leg (Med.), a swollen condition of the leg, usually in
puerperal women, caused by an inflammation of veins, and
characterized by a white appearance occasioned by an
accumulation of serum and sometimes of pus in the cellular
tissue.
Milk meats, food made from milk, as butter and cheese.
[Obs.] --Bailey.
Milk mirror. Same as Escutcheon, 2.
Milk molar (Anat.), one of the deciduous molar teeth which
are shed and replaced by the premolars.
Milk of lime (Chem.), a watery emulsion of calcium hydrate,
produced by macerating quicklime in water.
Milk parsley (Bot.), an umbelliferous plant (Peucedanum
palustre) of Europe and Asia, having a milky juice.
Milk pea (Bot.), a genus (Galactia) of leguminous and,
usually, twining plants.
Milk sickness (Med.), a peculiar malignant disease,
occurring in some parts of the Western United States, and
affecting certain kinds of farm stock (esp. cows), and
persons who make use of the meat or dairy products of
infected cattle. Its chief symptoms in man are
uncontrollable vomiting, obstinate constipation, pain, and
muscular tremors. Its origin in cattle has been variously
ascribed to the presence of certain plants in their food,
and to polluted drinking water.
Milk snake (Zo["o]l.), a harmless American snake
(Ophibolus triangulus, or O. eximius). It is variously
marked with white, gray, and red. Called also milk
adder, chicken snake, house snake, etc.
Milk sugar. (Physiol. Chem.) See Lactose, and Sugar of
milk (below).
Milk thistle (Bot.), an esculent European thistle (Silybum
marianum), having the veins of its leaves of a milky
whiteness.
Milk thrush. (Med.) See Thrush.
Milk tooth (Anat.), one of the temporary first set of teeth
in young mammals; in man there are twenty.
Milk tree (Bot.), a tree yielding a milky juice, as the cow
tree of South America (Brosimum Galactodendron), and the
Euphorbia balsamifera of the Canaries, the milk of both
of which is wholesome food.
Milk vessel (Bot.), a special cell in the inner bark of a
plant, or a series of cells, in which the milky juice is
contained. See Latex.
Rock milk. See Agaric mineral, under Agaric.
Sugar of milk. The sugar characteristic of milk; a hard
white crystalline slightly sweet substance obtained by
evaporation of the whey of milk. It is used in pellets and
powder as a vehicle for homeopathic medicines, and as an
article of diet. See Lactose. Milk sickness
Milk sickness Milk sickness (Veter.)
A peculiar malignant disease, occurring in parts of the
western United States, and affecting certain kinds of farm
stock (esp. cows), and persons using the meat or dairy
products of infected cattle. Its chief symptoms in man are
uncontrollable vomiting, obstinate constipation, pain, and
muscular tremors. Its origin in cattle has been variously
ascribed to the presence of certain plants in their food, and
to polluted water.
Morning sicknessMorning Morn"ing, a.
Pertaining to the first part or early part of the day; being
in the early part of the day; as, morning dew; morning light;
morning service.
She looks as clear As morning roses newly washed with
dew. --Shak.
Morning gown, a gown worn in the morning before one is
dressed for the day.
Morning gun, a gun fired at the first stroke of reveille at
military posts.
Morning sickness (Med.), nausea and vomiting, usually
occurring in the morning; -- a common sign of pregnancy.
Morning star.
(a) Any one of the planets (Venus, Jupiter, Mars, or Saturn)
when it precedes the sun in rising, esp. Venus. Cf.
Evening star, Evening.
(b) Satan. See Lucifer.
Since he miscalled the morning star, Nor man nor
fiend hath fallen so far. --Byron.
(c) A weapon consisting of a heavy ball set with spikes,
either attached to a staff or suspended from one by a
chain.
Morning watch (Naut.), the watch between four A. M. and
eight A. M.. Seasickness
Seasickness Sea"sick`ness, n.
The peculiar sickness, characterized by nausea and
prostration, which is caused by the pitching or rolling of a
vessel.
Sweating sicknessSweating Sweat"ing,
a. & n. from Sweat, v.
Sweating bath, a bath producing sensible sweat; a stove or
sudatory.
Sweating house, a house for sweating persons in sickness.
Sweating iron, a kind of knife, or a piece of iron, used to
scrape off sweat, especially from horses; a horse scraper.
Sweating room.
(a) A room for sweating persons.
(b) (Dairying) A room for sweating cheese and carrying off
the superfluous juices.
Sweating sickness (Med.), a febrile epidemic disease which
prevailed in some countries of Europe, but particularly in
England, in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries,
characterized by profuse sweating. Death often occured in
a few hours.
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Motion sickness occurs due to a
difference between actual and
expected motion.
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Altitude sickness, the
mildest form
being acute mountain sickness (AMS), is a
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Decompression sickness (abbreviated DCS; also
called divers' disease, the bends, aerobullosis, and
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known as
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characterized by trembling, vomiting, and
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