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English
Noun
altitude sickness (uncountable)
- (medicine) A pathological condition caused by oxygen deficiency at high altitudes; symptoms include shortness of breath, nausea, and nosebleed.
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oxygen deficiency at high altitudes
- Catalan: mal d'altura m, mal de muntanya m
- Chinese:
- Hokkien: 高山症 (ko san chèng)
- Mandarin: 高山症 (zh) (gāoshānzhèng), 高原反應/高原反应 (zh) (gāoyuán fǎnyìng), 高反 (zh) (gāofǎn)
- Finnish: vuoristotauti (fi)
- French: mal d’altitude m, mal des montagnes (fr) m
- German: Höhenkrankheit (de) f
- Irish: tinneas sléibhe m
- Japanese: 高山病 (ja) (kōzanbyō)
- Korean: 고산병(高山病) (ko) (gosanbyeong)
- Kyrgyz: түтөк (ky) (tütök)
- Malay: mabuk gunung
- Nepali: please add this translation if you can
- Polish: choroba wysokościowa (pl) f
- Portuguese: mal das montanhas m, mal da montanha m, mal de montanha m, mal das alturas m, mal de altitude m, doença das alturas f, doença das montanhas f
- Quechua: suruqch'i
- Romanian: rău de altitudine (ro) n
- Spanish: mal de montaña m, soroche (es) m, puna (es) f
- Swedish: höjdsjuka c
- Tibetan: ལ་དུག (la dug)
- Turkish: akut dağ hastalığı, irtifa hastalığı
- Welsh: salwch pen mynydd m
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