vertigo
n. uncountablen. a dizzy feeling where you think you or the things around you are spinning. It often happens when you look down from a very high place.
n. a sensation of spinning or loss of balance, typically caused by looking down from a great height or by disease affecting the inner ear.
Looking down from the balcony gave her a sudden attack of vertigo.
The hiker had to sit down on the narrow ridge because the sheer drop caused a bout of vertigo.
While often used to describe a fear of heights, clinical vertigo involves a vestibular system dysfunction that creates a false sense of rotational movement even when the patient is stationary.
Borrowed from Latin vertīgō.
Often used with the verbs 'suffer from', 'experience', or 'trigger'.
I have a vertigoI have vertigoVertigo is uncountable and does not take the indefinite article 'a'.