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Webster 1913 Edition

Vertigo

Ver′ti-go

(?; 277)
,
Noun.
;
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.
Quain.
2.
(Zool.)
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.

Webster 1828 Edition

Vertigo

VERT'IGO

,
Noun.
[L. from verto, to turn.] Giddiness; dizziness or swimming of the head; an affection of the head, in which objects appear to move in various directions, though stationary, and the person affected finds it difficult to maintain an erect posture.

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