space sickness
nounPathology.
a complex of symptoms including nausea, lethargy, headache, and sweating, occurring among astronauts under conditions of weightlessness.
Origin of space sickness
1First recorded in 1950–55
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British Dictionary definitions for space sickness
space sickness
noun
the nausea that people can experience in the gravity-free environment of space
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