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Meaning of "space sickness" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SPACE SICKNESS

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SPACE SICKNESS

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conjunction
determiner
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Space sickness is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES SPACE SICKNESS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Space adaptation syndrome

Space adaptation syndrome or space sickness is a condition experienced by around half of space travelers during adaptation to weightlessness. It is related to motion sickness, as the vestibular system adapts to weightlessness.

Definition of space sickness in the English dictionary

The definition of space sickness in the dictionary is the nausea that people can experience in the gravity-free environment of space.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SPACE SICKNESS

space heater
space helmet
Space Invaders
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space plane
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space science
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WORDS THAT END LIKE SPACE SICKNESS

African sleeping sickness
blackness
bleakness
business
darkness
decompression sickness
homesickness
morning sickness
motion sickness
mountain sickness
pinkness
quickness
radiation sickness
seasickness
semi-darkness
sickness
slackness
slickness
thickness
travel-sickness
weakness

Synonyms and antonyms of space sickness in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «space sickness» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SPACE SICKNESS

Find out the translation of space sickness to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of space sickness from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «space sickness» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

空间运动病
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

mal del espacio
570 millions of speakers

English

space sickness
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

अंतरिक्ष बीमारी
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

المرض الفضاء
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

пространство болезни
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

doença espaço
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

স্থান শট
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

mal de l´espace
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Ruang ditembak
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Weltraumkrankheit
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

宇宙酔い
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

공간 병
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Ruang ditembak
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

bệnh tật không gian
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

விண்வெளி ஷாட்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

स्पेस शॉट
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Uzay atışı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

mal di spazio
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

miejsca chorobowego
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

простір хвороби
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

boală spațiu
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ασθενείας χώρο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

ruimte siekte
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

rymdsjuka
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

plass sykdom
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of space sickness

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SPACE SICKNESS»

The term «space sickness» is used very little and occupies the 172.496 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SPACE SICKNESS» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about space sickness

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SPACE SICKNESS»

Discover the use of space sickness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to space sickness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Motion and Space Sickness
This compendium, written by active researchers in the field, encompasses topics ranging from anatomical and physiological subjects, through analyses of stimulus characteristics, prediction of sickness, and consideration of human factors, to ...
George H. Crampton, 1990
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Principles of Clinical Medicine for Space Flight
In: DeHart RL (ed.), Fundamentals of Aerospace Medicine. Baltimore, MD: Williams & Wilkins; 1996:309–397. 6. Harm DL. Physiology of motion sickness symptoms. In: Cramp- ton GH (ed.), Motion and Space Sickness. Boca Raton, FL: CRC ...
Michael R. Barratt, Sam Lee Pool, 2008
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New Scientist
Why do astronauts suffer space sickness? Roughly half of all astronauts and cosmonauts have suffered space sickness. What is space sickness and can it be prevented? Experiments on Spacelab suggest that this malady is very similar to ...
4
Vertigo: Its Multisensory Syndromes
space sickness and the mechanisms of nystagmus, velocity storage and dumping (DiZio and Lackner 1991). Evidence supporting the sensory conflict hypothesis for space motion sickness is provided by experimental exposure of fishes to ...
Thomas Brandt, 2003
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New Scientist
In fact, space sickness is a malady that now strikes more than 40 per cent of space travellers, can prevent a crew from performing their tasks, and is of utmost concern to scientists at NASA and in the Soviet Union. Space sickness (renamed  ...
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Women in Space: 23 Stories of First Flights, Scientific ...
Space Sickness While in medical school, Mae had continued taking dance at. have you ever had motion sickness? This condition develops in some people during motion. other names for it are seasickness, air sickness, and car sickness.
Karen Gibson, 2014
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Escaping the Bonds of Earth: The Fifties and the Sixties
SPACE SICKNESS Titov's long-hidden wrist injury may not have been detected, but almost immediately after reaching orbit another condition would become readily apparent. He would secure the unenviable record of becoming the first ...
Ben Evans, 2010
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Fundamentals of Space Medicine
It is important to note that no single course of sensory conflict appears to entire account for the symptoms of space sickness. Rather, it is the combination of these conflicts which somehow produces sickness, although the exact physiological ...
Gilles Clément, 2007
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Life at the Extremes: The Science of Survival
Space sickness can be a very real handicap for astronauts, preventing them from carrying out their work, and it is potentially lethal when wearing a spacesuit. Of special concern is the fact that most susceptible individuals succumb within the ...
Frances M. Ashcroft, 2002
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Vertigo and Dizziness: Common Complaints
... of low frequency, below 1Hz), vehicle simulator sickness (optokinetic motion sickness) and space sickness (incongruent sensory stimuli of the otoliths, semicircular canals and the visual system during active head movements in microgravity).
Thomas Brandt, Marianne Dieterich, Michael Strupp, 2007

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SPACE SICKNESS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term space sickness is used in the context of the following news items.
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The Singing Soyuz: TMA-15M crew arrive at the ISS
Italy has a rich history of sending astronauts into space, and Cristoforetti is becoming ... many of whom suffer from symptoms of space sickness at the same time. «NASASpaceflight.com, Nov 14»
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The Surprising Differences in How Space Travel Affects Men and …
For instance, women are less vulnerable to the effects of interstellar radiation, but more vulnerable to space sickness or urinary tract infections in space. «Popular Mechanics, Nov 14»
3
'Interstellar' Review: 2014 A Space Sickness
Interstellar is a love letter to Kubrick and Clarke's 2001: A Space Odyssey to the point where you could easily insert some of the latter's iconic dialogue into the ... «Uinterview.com, Nov 14»
4
International trio arrive at ISS following Soyuz TMA-13M trip
NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman, European Space Agency astronaut ... many of whom are suffering from symptoms of space sickness at the same time. Thus ... «NASASpaceflight.com, May 14»
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Astrophysicist Twitter-Rants Against the Scientific Errors in Gravity
And the camera work is so effective that it gave your blogger a case of vicarious space sickness after feeling as though she were free-floating for much of the ... «Vanity Fair, Oct 13»
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Soyuz TMA-10M docks with the ISS
... International Space Station (ISS), following their launch on Soyuz TMA-10M ... many of whom are suffering from symptoms of space sickness at the same time. «NASASpaceflight.com, Sep 13»
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Interview With Former NASA ISS Director on Elysium Space Station …
It is about a gigantic fancy space station that is reserved for the rich, while the .... or a ballerina, those are the people that are most susceptible to space sickness, ... «Huffington Post, Aug 13»
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Helen's advice on outer space
Space sickness, coping with weightlessness and keeping tabs on the planet ... who is set to follow in Helen's footsteps to become the second Brit in space, but ... «The Star, May 13»
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Virgin Galactic: We Don't Anticipate Motion Sickness
When SpaceShipTwo goes to space, it will make one big parabola ... were those within NASA that began measuring the amount of space sickness in “Garns”, ... «Universe Today, May 13»
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Chris Hadfield on getting sick in space
... astronauts experience disorientation and nausea when they arrive in space. ... Chris Hadfield demonstrates how astronauts deal with space sickness. Credits: ... «YouTube, Apr 13»

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