ALTITUDE SICKNESS
Dictionary entry overview: What does altitude sickness mean? • 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.
Dictionary entry details
• ALTITUDE SICKNESS (noun)
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)
| Learn English with... Proverbs of the week | |
"The nail that sticks out gets pounded." (English proverb)
"We do not inherit the world from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children." (Native American proverb, tribe unknown)
"A mountain won't get to a mountain, but a human will get to a human." (Armenian proverb)
"Half an egg is better than an empty shell." (Dutch proverb)
Page delivered in 0.0253 seconds
|
