soroche

1. (obsolete) altitude sickness, mountain sicknessExamples: "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."; "I should treat soroche on the plainest principles of hydraulics."; "The soroche attacks different persons in different ways."obsoleteuncountable