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Jet lag

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A physical condition caused by crossing time zones during flight; often the result of disruption to the circadian rhythms of the body. uncountable, usually

    "She knows, now, absolutely, hearing the white noise that is London, that Damien’s theory of jet lag is correct: that her mortal soul is leagues behind her, being reeled in on some ghostly umbilical down the vanished wake of the plane that brought her here, hundreds of thousands of feet above the Atlantic."

  2. 2
    fatigue and sleep disturbance resulting from disruption of the body's normal circadian rhythm as a result of jet travel wordnet

Etymology

Possibly coined by Horace Sutton in 1966.

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