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What does vertigo mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word vertigo? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. A sensation of whirling and loss of balance, caused by looking down from a great height or by disease affecting the inner ear.
  2. A disordered or imbalanced state of mind or things analogous to physical vertigo; mental giddiness or dizziness.
  3. The act of whirling round and round; rapid rotation.
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Watching a video of a roller coaster ride will never bring on the same sense of vertigo as the real deal.
They recommend anticholinergics and antihistamines for the treatment of nausea associated with vertigo or motion sickness.
Short but recurrent attacks of vertigo are often caused by benign positional vertigo.
Someone I know can't go to the circus, because watching the aerialists gives her vertigo.
The steady climb and particularly the final stairway to the fire lookout might give shaky legs to those with vertigo.
He was hit with a sudden flash of vertigo, and his stomach rolled over in a lazy lurch.

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