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soroche

soroche noun: altitude sickness, mountain sickness.

Noun

soroche (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) altitude sickness, mountain sickness
    • 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.1860, Proceedings of the Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow, volume 4
    • I should treat soroche on the plainest principles of hydraulics.1876, H. C. Cochrane, “The Misti, and travels in Peru and Chili”, in Journal of the American Geographical Society of New York, volume 6, page 219

Forms of soroche

alternative formsorochi
alternative formsorocho

Origin of soroche

Borrowed from Spanish soroche.

Questions about soroche

What does soroche mean?
Soroche means altitude sickness, mountain sickness.
What part of speech is soroche?
Soroche is a noun.

Words near soroche in the dictionary

  1. sorobans
  2. Soroca
  3. sorocarp
  4. sorocarpic
  5. sorocarps
  6. soroche
  7. sorochi
  8. sorocho
  9. Soroka
  10. Sorokas
  11. Sorokhaibam

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