Vertigo
noun
A condition where you feel like everything around you is spinning and you can't balance.
I was feeling dizzy, I might have had a mild vertigo.
Often appears as...
- experience vertigo
- symptoms of vertigo
noun
A feeling of fear when you look down from a high place.
When I looked down from the tall building, I felt a wave of vertigo.
Often appears as...
- fear of vertigo
- trigger vertigo
noun
A condition where you feel like everything around you is spinning and you can't balance.
I was feeling dizzy, I might have had a mild vertigo.
Often appears as...
- experience vertigo
- symptoms of vertigo
noun
A feeling of fear when you look down from a high place.
When I looked down from the tall building, I felt a wave of vertigo.
Often appears as...
- fear of vertigo
- trigger vertigo
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Pro Tip 1/3Medical Context
Used to describe a specific medical condition, not general dizziness.
After the boat trip, his severe vertigo required medical attention.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Always Serious
Vertigo can vary from mild to severe; it's not always an emergency.
She felt a brief vertigo stepping off the merry-go-round, but it passed quickly.
Pro Tip 3/3Balance Related
Vertigo involves a loss of balance or stability, often due to inner ear problems.
The doctor said my vertigo is due to an inner ear imbalance.
Pro Tip 1/3Medical Context
Used to describe a specific medical condition, not general dizziness.
After the boat trip, his severe vertigo required medical attention.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Always Serious
Vertigo can vary from mild to severe; it's not always an emergency.
She felt a brief vertigo stepping off the merry-go-round, but it passed quickly.
Pro Tip 3/3Balance Related
Vertigo involves a loss of balance or stability, often due to inner ear problems.
The doctor said my vertigo is due to an inner ear imbalance.
Pro Tip 1/3Medical Context
Used to describe a specific medical condition, not general dizziness.
After the boat trip, his severe vertigo required medical attention.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Always Serious
Vertigo can vary from mild to severe; it's not always an emergency.
She felt a brief vertigo stepping off the merry-go-round, but it passed quickly.
Pro Tip 3/3Balance Related
Vertigo involves a loss of balance or stability, often due to inner ear problems.
The doctor said my vertigo is due to an inner ear imbalance.
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After the Avalanche:...
I feel like there's a parallel with what was happening in my life. I felt like I was standing at the opening of a cave, looking in, not wanting to go in, but just sort of being sucked in, and not being able to see and feeling completely this sense of vertigo. I didn't know what was happening, and much like Matt is doing here,
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Stunning Moonlight...
you feel almost as though your feet might flash off from the ground and your fall upwards it's a kind of inverse vertigo it's a very wonderful and strange feeling extraordinary and it reminds me of why for as long as human culture has been recording itself it's
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The problem of light...
But when I did, I felt this deep sense of connection to the universe. And almost a sense of vertigo, like I was going to fall into space. And when this happened -- I know this sounds kind of ridiculous,
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After the Avalanche:...
I feel like there's a parallel with what was happening in my life. I felt like I was standing at the opening of a cave, looking in, not wanting to go in, but just sort of being sucked in, and not being able to see and feeling completely this sense of vertigo. I didn't know what was happening, and much like Matt is doing here,
Video examples
Stunning Moonlight...
you feel almost as though your feet might flash off from the ground and your fall upwards it's a kind of inverse vertigo it's a very wonderful and strange feeling extraordinary and it reminds me of why for as long as human culture has been recording itself it's
Video examples
The problem of light...
But when I did, I felt this deep sense of connection to the universe. And almost a sense of vertigo, like I was going to fall into space. And when this happened -- I know this sounds kind of ridiculous,
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Robert Barany
Austrian Scientist
Even such an obvious idea as to observe an animal with vertigo or to rotate an animal did not occur to him, in spite of the fact that he conducted numerous vertigo experiments with human subjects and made frequent use of animal experiments.
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Glenn Kelman
American Businessman
Thinking constantly about world domination can give you a little vertigo. The way I usually get through my day is by limiting my horizon to serving the next few customers or increasing revenues in the next few months.
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David Shields
American Author
Basically, I really love work that puts the reader into a kind of vertigo, into a real doubt, and a beautiful way to convey that, a really perfect metaphor for that, is to make the reader also experience doubt.
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Laura Hillenbrand
American Author
I have vertigo. Vertigo makes it feel like the floor is pitching up and down. Things seem to be spinning. It's like standing on the deck of a ship in really high seas.
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Hari Kunzru
British Novelist
I suffer from vertigo. It's paralyzing in extreme situations. The most scared I've been as an adult was trying to conquer that fear by going climbing in Wales.
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Rodney Atkins
American Musician
But I have vertigo... I lose my equilibrium easily. I can lean out to look at something and just keep leaning and not realize I'm about to fall.
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Jonathan Bailey
English Actor
I remember seeing Oliver!' when I was six and having vertigo in the theatre - I experience that even when I go to theatres now.
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Esha Gupta
Indian Actress
I have been battling vertigo for a long time. It's something that I deal with on a daily basis.
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Jason Day
Australian Athlete
I'm trying to adapt - they say you have to adapt to vertigo.
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Bruno Heller
English Writer
It gives me vertigo to watch TV dramas.
Quote examples
Robert Barany
Austrian Scientist
Even such an obvious idea as to observe an animal with vertigo or to rotate an animal did not occur to him, in spite of the fact that he conducted numerous vertigo experiments with human subjects and made frequent use of animal experiments.
Quote examples
Glenn Kelman
American Businessman
Thinking constantly about world domination can give you a little vertigo. The way I usually get through my day is by limiting my horizon to serving the next few customers or increasing revenues in the next few months.
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David Shields
American Author
Basically, I really love work that puts the reader into a kind of vertigo, into a real doubt, and a beautiful way to convey that, a really perfect metaphor for that, is to make the reader also experience doubt.
Quote examples
Laura Hillenbrand
American Author
I have vertigo. Vertigo makes it feel like the floor is pitching up and down. Things seem to be spinning. It's like standing on the deck of a ship in really high seas.
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Hari Kunzru
British Novelist
I suffer from vertigo. It's paralyzing in extreme situations. The most scared I've been as an adult was trying to conquer that fear by going climbing in Wales.
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Rodney Atkins
American Musician
But I have vertigo... I lose my equilibrium easily. I can lean out to look at something and just keep leaning and not realize I'm about to fall.
Quote examples
Jonathan Bailey
English Actor
I remember seeing Oliver!' when I was six and having vertigo in the theatre - I experience that even when I go to theatres now.
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Esha Gupta
Indian Actress
I have been battling vertigo for a long time. It's something that I deal with on a daily basis.
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Jason Day
Australian Athlete
I'm trying to adapt - they say you have to adapt to vertigo.
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Bruno Heller
English Writer
It gives me vertigo to watch TV dramas.
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