ozone sickness

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noun Pathology.

a condition characterized by chest pain, itchy eyes, and drowsiness, caused by exposure to ozone, as experienced in the atmospheres of smog and high-altitude airplanes.

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Origin of ozone sickness

First recorded in 1975–80

Words nearby ozone sickness

ozonation, ozone, ozone-friendly, ozone hole, ozone layer, ozone sickness, ozonic ether, ozonide, ozoniferous, ozonize, ozonizer

How to use ozone sickness in a sentence

The sickness in her mind was a reflection of the sickness of her life, a sickness created by her family and her society.
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You already protect you, and look after you in sickness and in health.
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I knew there would be good times and bad, sickness and health, broken dishwashers and giant cockroaches in the bathroom.
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The news is being taken as confirmation that Kate is fully recovered from her pregnancy sickness.
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And now that you mention it, I also got seasick, and had altitude sickness, and had to be rescued a few times.
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Sickness had never blanched the warm glow on her cheeks, or dimmed the brightness of her large, lustrous eyes.
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"Sleeping sickness" is a late stage when the organisms have invaded the cerebrospinal fluid.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
So that (wonderful to relate) they had no sickness, although there was sufficient cause for it in the privations they suffered.
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They arrived on the 29th January, after a very good passage, and without one hour's sickness.
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The same story everywhere—lack of men, meaning extra work—which again means sickness and still greater lack of men.
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