mountain sickness in English

sickness that attacks mountain climbers who climb too quickly to high altitudes

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1. Danger at High Altitudes —Treating Acute Mountain Sickness

2. 19 Danger at High Altitudes —Treating Acute Mountain Sickness

3. Rarely, acute mountain sickness progresses into its life-threatening severe form called high altitude cerebral edema.

4. Hypoxia can lead to typical altitude sickness, acute mountain sickness, altitude cerebral edema and altitude pulmonary edema.

5. First - time climber must have acclimatization training to adjust to altitude effects and to avoid mountain sickness.

6. The commonest form of high altitude sickness is acute mountain sickness which is characterized by the leading symptom of headache.

7. Acute mountain sickness (AMS) is the term that covers the symptoms induced by acute exposure to altitude-related hypobaric hypoxia.

8. At these altitudes the regular but especially the irregular pressure variation may assume major significance for the appearance of mountain sickness.

9. Carbonic anhydrase (CA) inhibitors, particularly acetazolamide, have been used at high altitude for decades to prevent or reduce acute mountain sickness (AMS), a syndrome of symptomatic intolerance to altitude characterized by headache, nausea, fatigue, anorexia and poor sleep

10. Intransitive verb US, informal : vomit Acute mountain sickness is typified by a headache that feels as if Thor himself is hammering your brain and by a strong desire to Barf. — Douglas Gantenbein In a pure Madonna moment, she sticks two fingers down her throat and pretends to Barf.