Meanings
- alternativeuncountableAlternative form of soroche.
New-comers upon those elevated parts of the Andes suffer from "puna," or "sorocho," an acclimation disease, characterized by piercing chilliness, headache, and nausea.
1877, Ernst Wagner, A Manual of General Pathology2 more examples
The facts probably are that the ordinary symptoms of sorocho are aggravated by the putrid emanations from the tombs, and the virulent diseases result from the latter cause.
1888, Henry Hurd Rusby, Coca at Home and Abroad, page 16A traveler who has explored the mountains of Bolivia and reru, in search of gold and silver mines, tells me that Indian postilions, using coca freely when driving pack-mules over the roughest roads along the Sierras, even when the sorocho prevails, outstrip well-mounted horsemen.
1889, “Animals that are vanishing”, in The American Magazine, volume 27, page 189
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