Citations:vertiginous

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English citations of vertiginous

causing dizziness, giddiness
  • 1752, Samuel Johnson, The Rambler[1]:
    ... of that vertiginous motion, with which we are carried round by the diurnal revolution of the earth. The power of agitation upon the ...
  • 1828, Massachusetts Medical Society, New England Surgical Society, The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal[2]:
    In cases of recurrent vertiginous attack with inadequate evidence of an ... and, in the majority, entire relief from the vertiginous attacks during a period ...
  • 1881, Jean Martin Charcot, Lectures on the Diseases of the Nervous System: Delivered at La Salpêtrière[3]:
    In addition to this vertiginous state, which was, in some sort, habitual, and which is accompanied by an incessant rustling heard in the ear, G— was subject ...
  • 1914, William Lincoln Ballenger, Diseases of the Nose, Throat and Ear: Medical and Surgical[4]:
    Two years have elapsed since the operation and the vertiginous attacks have been less frequent and much less severe in degree. The probabilities are that ...
having great depth