mountain sickness
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Noun
mountain sickness (uncountable)
- (medicine) Altitude sickness.
- 1915 April, Enos A. Mills, “Going to the Top”, in The Rocky Mountain Wonderland, Houghton Mifflin, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 10:
- Mountain-sickness, with its nausea, first comes to those who are bilious, or to those who are hurrying or exerting themselves more than usual.
Translations
altitude sickness — see altitude sickness
See also
Altitude sickness on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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