Mountain Sickness

Definition: Mountain Sickness

Mountain Sickness

Noun

1. Nausea and shortness of breath experienced by mountain climbers above ten thousand feet.

Crosswords: Mountain Sickness

Specialty definitions using "mountain sickness": soroche. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Hypoxia, Polycythemia, and Chronic Mountain Sickness (Johns Hopkins Series in Contemporary Medicine and Public Health) (reference) (more book examples)
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Expression using "mountain sickness": chronic mountain sickness. Additional references.
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Language		Translations for "mountain sickness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Arabic		‏مرض الجبال. (various references)

Danish		bjergsyge (altitude sickness), bjergsygdom (altitude sickness). (various references)

Dutch		hoogteziekte (altitude sickness), bergziekte (altitude sickness). (various references)

French		mal des montagnes, mal d'altitude. (various references)

German		höhenkrankheit (altitude sickness), bergkrankheit. (various references)

Greek		νόσος του Monge (chronic mountain sickness, Monge's disease), χρόνια ορεισιπάθεια (chronic mountain sickness, Monge's disease). (various references)

Italian		male d'altezza (altitude sickness), mal di montagna (altitude sickness), mal d'altitudine (altitude sickness). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		高山病 (altitude sickness). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		�"うざ�"びょう (altitude sickness). (various references)

Pig Latin		ountainmay icknesssay

Romanian		rãu de munte. (various references)

Spanish		mal de montaña (altitude sickness), mal de altura (altitude sickness), soroche, puna (Puna). (various references)

Swedish		Monges sjukdom (chronic mountain sickness, Monge's disease), kronisk bergssjuka (chronic mountain sickness, Monge's disease). (various references)

Vietnamese		chứng say núi. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
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	-5 letters: enunciation, nonmusician.
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