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ALTITUDE SICKNESS

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• ALTITUDE SICKNESS (noun)
The noun ALTITUDE SICKNESS has 1 sense:

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

Familiarity information: ALTITUDE SICKNESS used as a noun is very rare.

• ALTITUDE SICKNESS (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

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

hypoxia (a very strong drive resulting from a deficiency of available oxygen in the blood and bodily tissues (short of anoxia))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "altitude sickness"):

mountain sickness (nausea and shortness of breath experienced by mountain climbers above ten thousand feet)

"All flowers are not in one garland."
(English proverb)
"Who has no heart, has no heels."
(Albanian proverb)
"The pebble comes from the mountain."
(Arabic proverb)
"May problems with neighbors last only as long as snow in March."
(Corsican proverb)

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