mountain sickness

noun

mountain sickness

noun

1

Medicine, Sciences Altitude sickness.

Mountain-sickness, with its nausea, first comes to those who are bilious, or to those who are hurrying or exerting themselves more than usual.1915 April 23, Enos A. Mills, “Going to the Top”, in The Rocky Mountain Wonderland, Houghton Mifflin, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 10:

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