0 feeling as if everything is turning around, and that you are not able to balance and may fall over: --
I felt dizzy with excitement as I went up to collect the award.
Going without sleep for a long time makes me feel dizzy and light-headed.
2 having or causing a feeling of spinning around and being unable to balance: --
He was comfortable the morning following surgery whilst on 4-hourly painkillers but became progressively more uncomfortable and dizzy when they were "wearing off".
Squatting seemed to help dizzy symptoms that came on shortly after standing.
I have read books of astronomy which made me dizzy with the sense of illimitable space.
Recent anaesthesia and certain medications can cause patients to feel dizzy and unable to maintain their balance.
Victims of carbon monoxide poisoning will feel dizzy, then lose consciousness.
A geriatrician with an interest in falls is ideally placed to assess the older dizzy patient initially.
In the following section we will describe those diagnoses we find most common among the elderly, dizzy/vertiginous patients we meet in primary health care.
She felt dizzy and nauseated and then fainted.
