MOUNTAIN SICKNESS

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Nausea and shortness of breath experienced by mountain climbers above ten thousand feet

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("mountain sickness" is a kind of...):

altitude sickness (effects (as nosebleed or nausea) of oxygen deficiency in the blood and tissues at high altitudes)

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