Soroche
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Soroche is a noun meaning (obsolete) altitude sickness, mountain sickness.
Meaning
(obsolete) altitude sickness, mountain sickness.
Example Sentences
The soroche attacks different persons in different ways.
I should treat soroche on the plainest principles of hydraulics.
Men, horses, and mules occasionally perish under soroche while on the Andes; and yet some persons who never were 3,000 feet above the level of the ocean, or if so, have only been sitting in a balloon in a state of muscular quiescence, have ridiculed statements of facts such as those here noted.
Word Forms
- sorochi
- sorocho
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include sorochi, sorance, sorrance, scotomy, suicism, sordidity.
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