Diseases

Motion Sickness

Disorder caused by motion. It includes sea sickness, train sickness, roller coaster rides, rocking chair, hammock swing, car sickness, air sickness, or SPACE MOTION SICKNESS. Symptoms include nausea, vomiting and/or dizziness.

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Abstract

Disorder caused by motion. It includes sea sickness, train sickness, roller coaster rides, rocking chair, hammock swing, car sickness, air sickness, or SPACE MOTION SICKNESS. Symptoms include nausea, vomiting and/or dizziness.

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10 entry terms
  • Sickness, Motion
  • Air Sickness
  • Airsickness
  • Car Sickness
  • Carsickness
  • Sea Sickness
  • Seasickness
  • Sickness, Air
  • Sickness, Car
  • Sickness, Sea

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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, veterinary, virology.

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Indexing Annotation

SPACE MOTION SICKNESS is also available

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History Note

AIRSICKNESS, CARSICKNESS & SEASICKNESS were see under MOTION SICKNESS 1963-78

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QT 162.M6

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Motion Sickness. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D009041. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D009041
  2. Motion Sickness. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_sickness
  3. Motion Sickness. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q309067