air sickness

3 definitions found

air sickness - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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. The nauseous
     symptoms similar to seasickness experienced by passengers in
     pressurized aircraft is called air sickness.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC]

  Air sickness \Air" sick"ness\
     A vomiting or nauseous feeling similar to seasickness
     experienced by passengers in aircraft; -- it is caused by
     motion and distinguished from the effects of low air
     pressure, as it may also occur in the pressurized cabins of
     large aircraft.
     [PJC]

air sickness - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  air sickness
      n 1: motion sickness experienced while traveling by air
           (especially during turbulence) [syn: airsickness, air sickness
           ]