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vertigo

[vur-ti-goh] / ˈvɜr tɪˌgoʊ /


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She reported her vertigo to a neurologist, described her joint pain to a rheumatologist, complained of bloating to her primary-care physician.

From Salon Jun. 14, 2026

"In 2006, nearly 2,000 residents suffered from vertigo, sight problems and nausea after it rained in Guney, with blood tests showing cyanide in their blood," he said.

From Barron's May 15, 2026

She said she was nervous about the Mount Etna expedition in Italy because she had vertigo on a recent ascent of Ben Vorlich, her first Munro.

From BBC May 6, 2026

But there is nothing amusing about a sudden bout of vertigo and dizziness.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 15, 2026

I’m back in the spotlight of his gaze and having the same sense of vertigo I did in church.

From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson

Before returning to a consciousness of his existence he experiences vertigoes.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 497, July 11, 1885 by Various

Soon after that early period he became subject to vertigoes, which he thought indicative of a tendency to apoplexy; and was occasionally bled rather profusely, which only increased the symptoms.

From English Men of Letters: Crabbe by Ainger, Alfred

Then had come vertigoes and strange, inexplicable qualms, as if he were in an elevator that sank under him with terrifying rapidity.

From The Pit by Norris, Frank

The "inspissated gloom" of his work, its tenebrous gulfs and musical vertigoes are true indices of his morbid pathology.

From Ivory Apes and Peacocks by Huneker, James

In a statement from the Senegal FA, team doctor Dr Abdourahmane Fedior said Mane had been "replaced due to the vertigos he had on the pitch" after scoring.

From BBC Jan. 26, 2022

From the period of his attack in February he had 190 been, from time to time, indisposed; and, more than once, had complained of vertigos, which made him feel, he said, as if intoxicated.

From Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 6 With His Letters and Journals by Moore, Thomas

"The forerunners of an apoplexy are dulness, vertigos, tremblings."—ARBUTHNOT: ib.

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold

The position of our American colonel was the worst, for he was very stout and short-sighted, which defects, taken together, caused him frequent vertigos.

From From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan by Blavatsky, H. P. (Helena Petrovna)

The facets danced their vivid vertigos into his brain.

From The Flaw in the Sapphire by Snyder, Charles M.




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