plural of dope sickness

(slang) Sickness due to withdrawal from opiates.

Alternative spelling of carsickness

Alternative spelling of seasickness

(obsolete) Alternative form of green sickness

Alternative spelling of falling sickness

Alternative spelling of homesickness

especially, African sleeping sickness, an endemic infectious disease of humans and animals in tropical Africa, caused by a parasitic trypanosome, transmitted by the tsetse fly and characterized by fever, severe headache, joint pains and lymph node swelling in the early stages, followed by a neurological phase of extreme weakness, sleepiness, and deep coma leading to death

(pathology) A sometimes fatal condition resulting from the formation of nitrogen bubbles in the blood and tissues, because of too rapid decompression, seen especially in deep-sea divers ascending rapidly from a dive. It is characterized by severe pains in the joints and chest, skin irritation, cramps, nausea, and paralysis.

(medicine, pathology) Any illness produced by ionizing radiation with symptoms ranging from nausea to death.