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Synonyms for mountain sickness


Grammar : Noun



Définition of mountain sickness

  • As in altitude sickness : noun effects of oxygen deficiency
Example sentences :
  • There was no nausea or headache or any other symptom of “mountain sickness.”
  • Extract from : « The Ascent of Denali (Mount McKinley) » by Hudson Stuck
  • The number of victims of mountain sickness at Gnatong was considerable.
  • Extract from : « To Lhassa at Last » by Powell Millington
  • Presently, a dreadful sense of weakness seized him, that mountain sickness which produces the same effects as sea-sickness.
  • Extract from : « Tartarin On The Alps » by Alphonse Daudet
  • Meantime my mountain sickness tuned up something fierce, and I sat down on a big rock to wait for it to ease down.
  • Extract from : « The Red One » by Jack London
  • Even old hands like me are not free from mountain sickness, though it seizes us at higher altitudes than we shall reach to-day.
  • Extract from : « The Silent Barrier » by Louis Tracy
  • Mountain sickness, on the other hand, may be of either kind, though not of both at once.
  • Extract from : « To Lhassa at Last » by Powell Millington
  • Kronecker concludes that mountain sickness is caused by a congestion of the lungs, impeding the flow of blood through them.
  • Extract from : « Meteorology » by Charles Fitzhugh Talman
  • It was Steffan, a strong, young man, on whom the mountain sickness had seized with unusual violence.
  • Extract from : « Veronica And Other Friends » by Johanna (Heusser) Spyri
  • A fire was kindled and the tea-kettle put on, but our appetites were poor, as we were suffering from mountain sickness.
  • Extract from : « From Pole to Pole » by Sven Anders Hedin
  • I was a bit weak after my attack of mountain sickness, and stuck to my pony's back the whole way.
  • Extract from : « To Lhassa at Last » by Powell Millington

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