Definition of Car sickness

1. Noun. Motion sickness experienced while traveling in a car.

Generic synonyms: Kinetosis, Motion Sickness
Derivative terms: Carsick

Definition of Car sickness

1. Noun. (alternative spelling of carsickness) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Medical Definition of Car sickness

1. A form of motion sickness caused by riding on a train or in an automobile or bus. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Car Sickness

car manufacturer
car mirror
car park
car parks
car part
car phone
car pool
car pooler
car port
car race
car racing
car radio
car rental
car seat
car seats
car sickness (current term)
car tire
car traffic
car train
car transporter
car wash
car washes
car wheel
car window
carabao
carabaos
carabid
carabid beetle
carabids
carabin

Literary usage of Car sickness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Oxford Medicine by Henry Asbury Christian, James Mackenzie (1920)
"CAR (TRAIN) SICKNESS car sickness has the same general causes as sea sickness. It is likely that centripetal more often than central factors are operative ..."

2. Monographic Medicine by Albion Walter Hewlett, Henry Leopold Elsner (1916)
"F. Diseases Due to Unaccustomed Movements, or to Alterations of the Direction of the Movements of the Body (Sea-Sickness, Car-Sickness, ..."

3. The Prophylaxis and Treatment of Internal Disease: Designed for the Use of by Frederick Forchheimer (1910)
"In car sickness, the sodium bromide with ipecac is even more valuable than in seasickness. XIII. INSOMNIA While the phenomena of sleep are known, ..."

4. Medical Diagnosis for the Student and Practitioner by Charles Lyman Greene (1917)
"SEA-SICKNESS AND CAR-SICKNESS.—These interesting and common conditions still remain unexplained. We know that the vestibular apparatus is to some degree ..."

5. Proceedings by Philadelphia County Medical Society (1890)
"I should like, also, to call attention to car-sickness in connection with eye- strain. I have had eight or nine cases of this kind, and by glasses all have ..."

6. Buffalo Medical Journal (1891)
"I should like also to call attention to car-sickness in connection with eye-strain. I have had eight or nine cases of this kind, and by glasses all have ..."

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