vertigo : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: vertigo	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for vertigo
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
vertigo n a reeling sensation; a feeling that you are about to fall Synonym(s): dizziness, giddiness, lightheadedness, vertigo
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Vertigo \Ver"ti*go\ (?; 277), n.; pl. E. {Vertigoes}, L. {Vertigines}. [L., fr. vertere to turn. See {Verse}.] 1. (Med.) Dizziness or swimming of the head; an affection of the head in which objects, though stationary, appear to move in various directions, and the person affected finds it difficult to maintain an erect posture; giddiness. --Quian. 2. (Zo[94]l.) Any one of numerous species of small land snails belonging to the genus {Vertigo}, having an elongated or conical spiral shell and usually teeth in the aperture.