Logo
Unionpedia
Communication
Get it on Google Play
New! Download Unionpedia on your Android™ device!
Download
Faster access than browser!
 

Dizziness

Index Dizziness

Dizziness is an impairment in spatial perception and stability. [1]

38 relations: Anemia, Anxiety, Balance disorder, Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo, Brain tumor, Broken escalator phenomenon, Chronic subjective dizziness, Coriolis effect (perception), Emergency department, Hyperventilation, Hypoglycemia, Hypotension, Hypoxemia, Ideomotor phenomenon, Illusions of self-motion, Labyrinthitis, Lightheadedness, Major depressive disorder, Ménière's disease, Migraine, Motion sickness, Multiple sclerosis, Myocardial infarction, Otitis media, Panic disorder, Postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome, Pregnancy, Presyncope, Proprioception, Ramsay Hunt syndrome, Seal script, Sense of balance, Spatial disorientation, Spins, Stroke, Syncope (medicine), Vertigo, Vestibular schwannoma.

Anemia

Anemia is a decrease in the total amount of red blood cells (RBCs) or hemoglobin in the blood, or a lowered ability of the blood to carry oxygen.

New!!: Dizziness and Anemia · See more »

Anxiety

Anxiety is an emotion characterized by an unpleasant state of inner turmoil, often accompanied by nervous behaviour such as pacing back and forth, somatic complaints, and rumination.

New!!: Dizziness and Anxiety · See more »

Balance disorder

A balance disorder is a disturbance that causes an individual to feel unsteady, for example when standing or walking.

New!!: Dizziness and Balance disorder · See more »

Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo

Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV) is a disorder arising from a problem in the inner ear.

New!!: Dizziness and Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo · See more »

Brain tumor

A brain tumor occurs when abnormal cells form within the brain.

New!!: Dizziness and Brain tumor · See more »

Broken escalator phenomenon

The broken escalator phenomenon, also known as the Walker effect, is the sensation of losing balance or dizziness reported by some people when stepping onto an escalator which is not working.

New!!: Dizziness and Broken escalator phenomenon · See more »

Chronic subjective dizziness

The term chronic subjective dizziness (CSD) is used to describe a commonly encountered type of dizziness that is not easily categorized into one of several other types, and for which the physical examination is typically normal.

New!!: Dizziness and Chronic subjective dizziness · See more »

Coriolis effect (perception)

In psychophysical perception, the Coriolis effect (also referred to as the Coriolis illusion) is the misperception of body orientation and induced nausea due to the Coriolis force.

New!!: Dizziness and Coriolis effect (perception) · See more »

Emergency department

An emergency department (ED), also known as an accident & emergency department (A&E), emergency room (ER), emergency ward (EW) or casualty department, is a medical treatment facility specializing in emergency medicine, the acute care of patients who present without prior appointment; either by their own means or by that of an ambulance.

New!!: Dizziness and Emergency department · See more »

Hyperventilation

Hyperventilation (a.k.a. overbreathing) occurs when the rate or tidal volume of breathing eliminates more carbon dioxide than the body can produce.

New!!: Dizziness and Hyperventilation · See more »

Hypoglycemia

Hypoglycemia, also known as low blood sugar, is when blood sugar decreases to below normal levels.

New!!: Dizziness and Hypoglycemia · See more »

Hypotension

Hypotension is low blood pressure, especially in the arteries of the systemic circulation.

New!!: Dizziness and Hypotension · See more »

Hypoxemia

Hypoxemia (or hypoxaemia in British English) is an abnormally low level of oxygen in the blood.

New!!: Dizziness and Hypoxemia · See more »

Ideomotor phenomenon

Ideomotor phenomenon is a psychological phenomenon wherein a subject makes motions unconsciously.

New!!: Dizziness and Ideomotor phenomenon · See more »

Illusions of self-motion

Illusions of self-motion refers to a phenomenon that occurs when someone feels like their body is moving when no movement is taking place.

New!!: Dizziness and Illusions of self-motion · See more »

Labyrinthitis

Labyrinthitis, also known as vestibular neuritis, is the inflammation of inner ear.

New!!: Dizziness and Labyrinthitis · See more »

Lightheadedness

Lightheadedness is a common and typically unpleasant sensation of dizziness and/or a feeling that one may faint.

New!!: Dizziness and Lightheadedness · See more »

Major depressive disorder

Major depressive disorder (MDD), also known simply as depression, is a mental disorder characterized by at least two weeks of low mood that is present across most situations.

New!!: Dizziness and Major depressive disorder · See more »

Ménière's disease

Ménière's disease (MD) is a disorder of the inner ear that is characterized by episodes of feeling like the world is spinning (vertigo), ringing in the ears (tinnitus), hearing loss, and a fullness in the ear.

New!!: Dizziness and Ménière's disease · See more »

Migraine

A migraine is a primary headache disorder characterized by recurrent headaches that are moderate to severe.

New!!: Dizziness and Migraine · See more »

Motion sickness

Motion sickness is a condition in which a disagreement exists between visually perceived movement and the vestibular system's sense of movement.

New!!: Dizziness and Motion sickness · See more »

Multiple sclerosis

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a demyelinating disease in which the insulating covers of nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord are damaged.

New!!: Dizziness and Multiple sclerosis · See more »

Myocardial infarction

Myocardial infarction (MI), commonly known as a heart attack, occurs when blood flow decreases or stops to a part of the heart, causing damage to the heart muscle.

New!!: Dizziness and Myocardial infarction · See more »

Otitis media

Otitis media is a group of inflammatory diseases of the middle ear.

New!!: Dizziness and Otitis media · See more »

Panic disorder

Panic disorder is an anxiety disorder characterized by reoccurring unexpected panic attacks.

New!!: Dizziness and Panic disorder · See more »

Postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome

Postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS) is a condition in which a change from lying to standing causes an abnormally large increase in heart rate.

New!!: Dizziness and Postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome · See more »

Pregnancy

Pregnancy, also known as gestation, is the time during which one or more offspring develops inside a woman.

New!!: Dizziness and Pregnancy · See more »

Presyncope

Presyncope is a state of lightheadedness, muscular weakness, blurred vision, and feeling faint (as opposed to a syncope, which is actually fainting).

New!!: Dizziness and Presyncope · See more »

Proprioception

Proprioception, from Latin proprius, meaning "one's own", "individual", and capio, capere, to take or grasp, is the sense of the relative position of one's own parts of the body and strength of effort being employed in movement.

New!!: Dizziness and Proprioception · See more »

Ramsay Hunt syndrome

Three different neurological syndromes carry the name of Ramsay Hunt syndrome.

New!!: Dizziness and Ramsay Hunt syndrome · See more »

Seal script

Seal script is an ancient style of writing Chinese characters that was common throughout the latter half of the 1st millennium BC.

New!!: Dizziness and Seal script · See more »

Sense of balance

The sense of balance or equilibrioception is one of the physiological senses related to balance.

New!!: Dizziness and Sense of balance · See more »

Spatial disorientation

Spatial disorientation, spatial unawareness is the inability of a person to correctly determine his/her body position in space.

New!!: Dizziness and Spatial disorientation · See more »

Spins

The spins (as in having "the spins")Diane Marie Leiva.

New!!: Dizziness and Spins · See more »

Stroke

A stroke is a medical condition in which poor blood flow to the brain results in cell death.

New!!: Dizziness and Stroke · See more »

Syncope (medicine)

Syncope, also known as fainting, is a loss of consciousness and muscle strength characterized by a fast onset, short duration, and spontaneous recovery.

New!!: Dizziness and Syncope (medicine) · See more »

Vertigo

Vertigo is a symptom where a person feels as if they or the objects around them are moving when they are not.

New!!: Dizziness and Vertigo · See more »

Vestibular schwannoma

A vestibular schwannoma (VS) is a benign primary intracranial tumor of the myelin-forming cells of the vestibulocochlear nerve (8th cranial nerve).

New!!: Dizziness and Vestibular schwannoma · See more »

Redirects here:

Dizziness and Vertigo, Dizzy (medicine), Dizzyness, Feeling faint, Giddiness, Merlasma, 💫, 😵, 🥴.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dizziness

OutgoingIncoming
Hey! We are on Facebook now! »