loss of equilibrium

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"Jack fell down and broke his crown" became: "A youth, designated only as 'Jack,' sustained, incident to a loss of equilibrium, a fracture of the cranium."

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Loud noise also causes a number of unpleasant bodily sensations, such as vibration of the head and eyeballs, loss of vision, loss of equilibrium and heating of the skin.

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He said he thought so but was uncertain about a concussion and possible loss of equilibrium.

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This is not apt to occur, however, in the indigenous practice of an art, but comes more frequently from a loss of equilibrium or balance in motives or desires, caused by untoward exotic influence.

From A Study Of The Textile Art In Its Relation To The Development Of Form And Ornament Sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1884-'85, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1888, (pages 189-252) by Holmes, William Henry

Audacity and self-possession were necessary every minute, every second; a moment's loss of equilibrium might prove fatal.

From The Galaxy, Volume 23, No. 2, February, 1877 by Various