| 单词 | altitude sickness |
| 释义 | > as lemmasaltitude sickness altitude sickness n. [after French malaise d'altitude (1881 or earlier) or mal d'altitude (1882 or earlier); compare German Höhenkrankheit (1857 or earlier)] illness brought on by ascent to (or, rarely, residence at) a high altitude, typically characterized by headache, nausea, and difficulty in breathing, but sometimes progressing to life-threatening pulmonary or cerebral oedema, and resulting from the reduced partial pressure of oxygen in inspired air at such altitudes; cf. acute mountain sickness n. at acute adj. and n. Compounds 2 and mountain sickness n. at mountain n. and adj. Compounds 2a. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > environmental disorders > [noun] > atmospheric pressure puna1835 mountain sickness1848 soroche1878 caisson disease1883 the bends1894 altitude sickness1901 caisson sickness1911 decompression sickness1941 ebullism1956 1901 M. S. Gabriel tr. G. H. Roger Introd. Study Med. iii. 39 The aeronauts had taken with them receivers full of oxygen, but when about to make use of them, paralyzed by the cold and exhausted by altitude sickness, they were unable to reach their apparatus, and succumbed under the same conditions of aeration as those under which Paul Bert had survived. 1953 Times 12 June 6/7 The support parties..were weakened by the failure—due to altitude sickness—of three of the five Sherpas chosen for the task. 2006 Vertical Dec. 54/2 Less time spent on the mountain means less time exposed to avalanches, stonefall, storms and altitude sickness. < as lemmas |
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