vertigo
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It's something Dr Nicholas Hac, a neurologist at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago who specialises in dizziness and vertigo, has also heard from some of his patients.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
At a store selling harmonic healing devices, I watched a man cradle a swaddled Chihuahua within a 9-foot-tall golden pyramid structure in an attempt to heal the dog’s vertigo.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026
And because it’s typically done in an upright posture, it’s accessible to those with back or joint pain, arthritis, osteoporosis and vertigo, as it doesn’t require hinging forward.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
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
As I cling tightly to the scarecrow’s legs, I look down, and I am dizzied by vertigo.
From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman
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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 Alfred Ainger
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 Frank Norris
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 James Huneker
Before returning to a consciousness of his existence he experiences vertigoes.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 497, July 11, 1885 by Various
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
The facets danced their vivid vertigos into his brain.
From The Flaw in the Sapphire by Charles M. Snyder
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 Thomas Moore
"The forerunners of an apoplexy are dulness, vertigos, tremblings."—ARBUTHNOT: ib.
From The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown
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 H. P. (Helena Petrovna) Blavatsky
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