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MOUNTAIN SICKNESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Nausea and shortness of breath experienced by mountain climbers above ten thousand feet
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("mountain sickness" is a kind of...):
altitude sickness (effects (as nosebleed or nausea) of oxygen deficiency in the blood and tissues at high altitudes)
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