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space sickness

American  

noun

Pathology.
  1. a complex of symptoms including nausea, lethargy, headache, and sweating, occurring among astronauts under conditions of weightlessness.


space sickness British  

noun

  1. the nausea that people can experience in the gravity-free environment of space

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of space sickness

First recorded in 1950–55

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It even has a name, “Space Adaptation Syndrome,” or more commonly, space sickness.

From Washington Post Jun. 19, 2019

This causes a form of motion sickness called space sickness.

From Textbooks Jan. 1, 2015

Except for his nineteen and three-quarter minutes of space sickness.

From Nature Nov. 30, 2011

Equally important was the indication that Russia had licked the problem of space sickness.

From Time Magazine Archive

That's if nobody's got space sickness, of course.

From The Hated by Pohl, Frederik

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