rupture
breach
break severance
rift
falling out | a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions), they hoped to avoid a break in relations |
sick benefit
sickness benefit | money paid (by the government) to someone who is too ill to work |
slump
slack
drop-off
falloff
falling off | a noticeable deterioration in performance or quality, the team went into a slump, a gradual slack in output, a drop-off in attendance, a falloff in quality |
| altitude sickness | effects (as nosebleed or nausea) of oxygen deficiency in the blood and tissues at high altitudes |
| mountain sickness | nausea and shortness of breath experienced by mountain climbers above ten thousand feet |
illness
unwellness
malady
sickness | impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism |
decompression sickness
aeroembolism air embolism gas embolism caisson disease
bends | pain resulting from rapid change in pressure |
| milk sickness | caused by consuming milk from cattle suffering from trembles |
sweating sickness
miliary fever | epidemic in the th and th centuries and characterized by profuse sweating and high mortality |
| ozone sickness | illness that can occur to persons exposed to ozone in high-altitude aircraft, characterized by sleepiness and headache and chest pains and itchiness |
motion sickness
kinetosis | the state of being dizzy or nauseated because of the motions that occur while traveling in or on a moving vehicle |
airsickness
air sickness | motion sickness experienced while traveling by air (especially during turbulence) |
| car sickness | motion sickness experienced while traveling in a car |
| sweating sickness | a disease of cattle (especially calves) |
trembles
milk sickness | disease of livestock and especially cattle poisoned by eating certain kinds of snakeroot |
radiation sickness
radiation syndrome
radiation | syndrome resulting from exposure to ionizing radiation (e.g., exposure to radioactive chemicals or to nuclear explosions), low doses cause diarrhea and nausea and vomiting and sometimes loss of hair, greater exposure can cause sterility and cataracts and some forms of cancer and other diseases, severe exposure can cause death within hours, he was suffering from radiation |
sleeping sickness
sleepy sickness
epidemic encephalitis
lethargic encephalitis
encephalitis lethargica | an encephalitis that was epidemic between and , symptoms include paralysis of the extrinsic eye muscle and extreme muscular weakness |
nausea
sickness | the state that precedes vomiting |
| morning sickness | nausea early in the day, a characteristic symptom in the early months of pregnancy |
| sickness | defectiveness or unsoundness, drugs have become a sickness they cannot cure, a great sickness of his judgment |
serum sickness
serum disease | a delayed allergic reaction to the injection of an antiserum caused by an antibody reaction to an antigen in the donor serum |
dropping
falling | coming down freely under the influence of gravity, the eerie whistle of dropping bombs, falling rain |
| falling | becoming lower or less in degree or value, a falling market, falling incomes |
| falling | decreasing in amount or degree, falling temperature |