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  2. Heavy-headedness - Wikipedia

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    Heavy-headedness is the feeling of faintness, dizziness, or feeling of floating, wooziness. [1] [2] [3] Individuals may feel as though their head is heavy; also feel as though the room is moving/spinning also known as vertigo. Some causes of heavy-headedness can be tough to get rid of and can last a long period of time, however most can be treated.

  3. Vertigo - Wikipedia

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    [2] [4] [5] Physiologic vertigo may occur following being exposed to motion for a prolonged period such as when on a ship or simply following spinning with the eyes closed. [6] [7] Other causes may include toxin exposures such as to carbon monoxide, alcohol, or aspirin. [8] Vertigo typically indicates a problem in a part of the vestibular ...

  4. Lightheadedness - Wikipedia

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    Lightheadedness is a common and typically unpleasant sensation of dizziness [1] or a feeling that one may faint. The sensation of lightheadedness can be short-lived, prolonged, or, rarely, recurring. In addition to dizziness, the individual may feel as though their head is weightless.

  5. Dizziness - Wikipedia

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    Dizziness is a common medical complaint, affecting 20–30% of persons. [4] Dizziness is broken down into four main subtypes: vertigo (~25–50%), disequilibrium (less than ~15%), presyncope (less than ~15%), and nonspecific dizziness (~10%). [5] Vertigo is the sensation of spinning or having one's surroundings spin about them. Many people find ...

  6. Category:Dizzy (series) - Wikipedia

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    This category contains all articles to do with the video game character, Dizzy designed by the Oliver twins. Pages in category "Dizzy (series)" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total.

  7. Dizzy (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Dizzy Gillespie Harrison, the protagonist in the 2002 teen film The New Guy; Dizzy Tremaine, from the Disney Descendants franchise; Dizzy Wallin, from the Gears of War video game series; Dizzy (Guilty Gear), a character from the Guilty Gear video game series; Dizzy, a cement mixer character from Bob the Builder; Dizzy, a character from Dark Oracle

  8. Virtual reality sickness - Wikipedia

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    Virtual reality sickness may have undesirable consequences beyond the sickness itself. For example, Crowley (1987) argued that flight simulator sickness could discourage pilots from using flight simulators, reduce the efficiency of training through distraction and the encouragement of adaptive behaviors that are unfavorable for performance, compromise ground safety or flight safety when sick ...

  9. Coriolis effect (perception) - Wikipedia

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    This causes a sense of dizziness or nausea before equilibrium is restored after the head returns to a stabilized state. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Crucially, this illusion is based entirely upon perception, and is largely due to conflicting signals between one's sight and one's perception of their body position or motion. [ 6 ]