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altitude sickness

noun as in effects of oxygen deficiency

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Their oxygen supply dwindled, producing a syndrome resembling altitude sickness, due to a miscalculation about photosynthesis.

Lieutenant Alkonis’s family and supporters insisted that he had suffered from altitude sickness and been denied due process in a foreign court system that gave little weight to his guilty plea and repeated apologies.

The only thing that really scared her about the climb was the possibility of altitude sickness.

An official said most were poorly equipped, suffering hypothermia or altitude sickness.

From Reuters

Deaths are not uncommon, either from the snowslides, storms or altitude sickness.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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