mountain sickness
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In his defence, US Navy doctors said he had been suffering from acute mountain sickness at the time of the accident.
From BBC ● Feb. 17, 2024
The judge said that though it was conceivable Alkonis was suffering from light mountain sickness, it was difficult to imagine he went from not feeling drowsy at all to becoming suddenly incapacitated.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 5, 2022
The symptoms of acute mountain sickness include headache, nausea, vomiting, shortness of breath, loss of appetite, and flulike malaise, and they can all occur without any physical exertion.
From Slate ● Feb. 26, 2018
When I got to the top, I had mountain sickness, so I wasn’t thinking clearly,” Sean Turner said.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 19, 2015
We did not suffer from puna, or mountain sickness, which Bishop Sprat, of Rochester, mentions in 1650, and which Mr. Darwin—alas that we must write the late!—cured by botanising.
From To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I by Sir Richard Francis Burton
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