GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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   Aërial sickness. A sickness felt by aëronauts due to high speed of flights and rapidity in changing altitudes, combining some symptoms of mountain sickness and some of seasickness.  The nauseous symptoms similar to seasickness experienced by passengers in pressurized aircraft is called air sickness.
   
   [Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC]
   
   
         
       

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   Air sickness. A vomiting or nauseous feeling similar to seasickness experienced by passengers in aircraft; -- it is caused by motion and distinguished from the effects of low air pressure, as it may also occur in the pressurized cabins of large aircraft.
   
   [PJC]