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MOUNTAIN SICKNESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does mountain sickness mean?
• MOUNTAIN SICKNESS (noun)
The noun MOUNTAIN SICKNESS has 1 sense:
1. nausea and shortness of breath experienced by mountain climbers above ten thousand feet
Familiarity information: MOUNTAIN SICKNESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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