Medical Definition of Soroche
1. Synonym: altitude sickness. Origin: Sp. (orig. Ore, formerly attributed to toxic emanations of ores in mountains) (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Soroche
Literary usage of Soroche
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Polar and Tropical Worlds: A Description of Man and Nature in the Polar by Georg Hartwig (1872)
"Influence of Elevation upon Climate — The Puni of Peru: Squier's Description of
the Puna— Tbe soroche or Veta—View from La ..."
2. A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains by Isabella Lucy Bird (1894)
"... Agreeable"— Climate of Colorado—soroche and Snakes. CANYON, September 1S.
I WAS actually so dull and tired that I deliberately slept away the afternoon ..."
3. A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains by Isabella Lucy Bird (1886)
"4 Plag«3 of Flies—A melancholy Charioteer—The Foot Hills—A Mountain Boarding-Honse—A
dull Life—" Being Agreeable"— Climate of Colorado—soroche and Snakes. ..."
4. Travels in South America: From the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean by Paul Marcoy (1875)
"Station of Apo.—What the traveller finds, and what he experiences on arriving
there.—The soroche.—Occasional gossips en route. ..."
5. Two years in Peru, with exploration of its antiquities by Thomas Joseph Hutchinson (1873)
"CHAPTER VI. At Arequipa.—Excellence of its station arrangements.—Hotels at
Arequipa.—The soroche and ..."
6. South America, Social, Industrial, and Political: A Twenty-five-thousand by Frank George Carpenter (1900)
"... THE SEA — THE HORRORS OF soroche, OR MOUNTAIN SICKNESS — A SNOWBALL FIGHT IN
THE CLOUDS—ON THE EASTERN SIDE OF THE ANDES. • OWN the Andes on a hand-car; ..."
7. Peru Illustrated: Or, Incidents of Travel and Exploration in the Land of the by Ephraim George Squier (1877)
"The soroche.— Climbing the Crest. — La Portada. — Llamas.—The Alps and the
Andes.—Tambos. ... Effects of the soroche. ..."
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