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ALTITUDE SICKNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does altitude sickness mean? 

ALTITUDE SICKNESS (noun)
  The noun ALTITUDE SICKNESS has 1 sense:

1. effects (as nosebleed or nausea) of oxygen deficiency in the blood and tissues at high altitudesplay

  Familiarity information: ALTITUDE SICKNESS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


ALTITUDE SICKNESS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Effects (as nosebleed or nausea) of oxygen deficiency in the blood and tissues at high altitudes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("altitude sickness" is a kind of...):

hypoxia (oxygen deficiency causing a very strong drive to correct the deficiency)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "altitude sickness"):

mountain sickness (nausea and shortness of breath experienced by mountain climbers above ten thousand feet)


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