space sickness


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

Origin of space sickness

1
First recorded in 1950–55

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British Dictionary definitions for space sickness

space sickness

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

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