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seasickness: see motion sickness motion sickness, waves of nausea and vomiting experienced by some people, resulting from the sudden changes in movement of a vehicle. The ailment is also known as seasickness, car sickness, train sickness, airsickness, and swing sickness. ..... Click the link for more information. . seasickness [′sē‚sik·nəs] (medicine) Motion sickness occurring at sea. Also known as pelagism. 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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This young man asked a great many questions about seasickness before we left, and wanted to know what its characteristics were and how he was to tell when he had it. "And to think," said Musqueton, "that we have nothing to fight seasickness with but barley bread and hop beer. Her monstrosities in the way of cattle would have taken prizes at an agricultural fair, and the perilous pitching of her vessels would have produced seasickness in the most nautical observer, if the utter disregard to all known rules of shipbuilding and rigging had not convulsed him with laughter at the first glance. |
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