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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.