Space Motion Sickness

Views Updated: Dec 15, 2025

Key Facts

Abbreviation
SMS
Pronunciation
/speɪs ˈmoʊʃən ˈsɪknəs/
Category
Governmental
Related Field
NASA

Examples in Context

  1. Space motion sickness has long been a difficult medical problem in human space flight.
  2. Car sickness, nausea, airsickness and space motion sickness are due to the vestibular system abnormality activity leading the disorder of visceral function.
  3. The outbreak of space motion sickness is very common in astronauts during space flight because the afferent impulses from vestibular otolith receptors are reduced when the astronauts are exposed to a new weightlessness environment.
  4. Because it is a group of syndromes of the astronauts in adaptation to the new space environment and is related to a wide range of factors, the research of space motion sickness is different from that of cardiovascular and pulmonary system.
  5. The symptoms of space motion sickness include cold sweat, nausea, vomiting, as well as loss of initiative and sensitivity to normally innocuous sensory stimuli and some attentional and cognitive disorders such as decreased concentration.

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