mountain sickness

noun

Altitude sickness.

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Meanings

nounmountain sickness (uncountable)
  1. uncountablemedicineAltitude sickness.

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

    1915 April 28, Enos A. Mills, “Going to the Top”, in The Rocky Mountain Wonderland, Houghton Mifflin, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 10

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
altitude sickness
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mountain sickness. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mountain%20sickness

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“mountain sickness.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mountain%20sickness. Accessed November 4, 2026.

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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “mountain sickness,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mountain%20sickness.

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