mountain sickness

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

   Broaderaltitude sickness

Questions about mountain sickness

What does mountain sickness mean?

mountain sickness means "nausea and shortness of breath experienced by mountain climbers above ten thousand feet".

Is mountain sickness a common word?

mountain sickness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.