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air sickness

Aerial sickness \A*["e]"ri*al sick"ness\ A sickness felt by a["e]ronauts due to high speed of flights and rapidity in changing altitudes, combining some symptoms of mountain sickness and some of seasickness. The nauseous symptoms similar to seasickness experienced by passengers in pressurized aircraft is called air sickness.

WordNet
air sickness

n. motion sickness experienced while traveling by air (especially during turbulence) [syn: airsickness]

Usage examples of "air sickness".

She'd already downed half a roll of antacids and two air sickness pills.

It is the more inert nitrogen that refuses to get out of the blood after one has been under pressure, that forms the bubbles of gas which cause all the trouble, the 'bends,' compressed-air sickness, you know.

And when they landed in Sharm El-Sheikh, after only a half-hour in the air, some of the assault force were overwhelmed by air sickness.