mountain sickness

English

Noun

mountain sickness (uncountable)

1. (medicine) Altitude sickness.
   • 1915 April, Enos A. Mills, “Going to the Top”, in The Rocky Mountain Wonderland, Houghton Mifflin, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 10:

     Mountain-sickness, with its nausea, first comes to those who are bilious, or to those who are hurrying or exerting themselves more than usual.

Translations

altitude sickness — see altitude sickness

See also

• Altitude sickness on Wikipedia.Wikipedia