ozone sickness

1. 1.

   illness that can occur to persons exposed to ozone in high-altitude aircraft; characterized by sleepiness and headache and chest pains and itchiness

   Broaderillness

Questions about ozone sickness

What does ozone sickness mean?

ozone sickness means "illness that can occur to persons exposed to ozone in high-altitude aircraft; characterized by sleepiness and headache and chest pains and itchiness".

Is ozone sickness a common word?

ozone sickness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.