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noun Pathology.

altitude sickness.

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Origin of mountain sickness

First recorded in 1840–50

Words nearby mountain sickness

mountain oyster, mountain range, mountain rosebay, mountain sandwort, mountain sheep, mountain sickness, mountainside, Mountain Standard Time, Mountain State, mountain system, Mountain time

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How to use mountain sickness in a sentence

Ascending too quickly increases the chances of altitude-related illnesses, like acute mountain sickness, with symptoms that include headache, nausea, dizziness, and shortness of breath.
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Then they came up against a police patrol on mountain bicycles, which again led to more shooting, without injuries.
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The sickness in her mind was a reflection of the sickness of her life, a sickness created by her family and her society.
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You already protect you, and look after you in sickness and in health.
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I knew there would be good times and bad, sickness and health, broken dishwashers and giant cockroaches in the bathroom.
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Also in Germany, he made The Mountain Eagle, which was set, Hitchcock recalled, “in Old Kentucky, wherever that might be.”
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We had now approached closely to the foot of the mountain-ranges, and their lofty summits were high above us in mid-air.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846|Various
The jagged top and spurs of San Jacinto Mountain shone like the turrets and posterns of a citadel built of rubies.
Ramona|Helen Hunt Jackson
These residents then killed the parish priest, and without arms fled for safety to the mountain ravines.
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We came down the rest of the mountain more carefully, though still a great deal too fast.
Glances at Europe|Horace Greeley
A short distance off was another ridge or spur of the mountain, widening out into almost a plateau.
Ramona|Helen Hunt Jackson

British Dictionary definitions for mountain sickness

mountain sickness

noun

Also called: altitude sickness nausea, headache, and shortness of breath caused by climbing to high altitudes (usually above 12 000 ft)

vet science a disease of cattle kept at high altitude in S and N America, characterized by congestive heart failure

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Medical definitions for mountain sickness

mountain sickness

[ moun′tən ]

Altitude sickness brought on by the diminished oxygen pressure at mountain elevations.