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soroche

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Borrowed from Spanish soroche.

noun sorochi · sorocho

  1. obsolete, uncountable 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.

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@misc{soroche_2026,
  title = {soroche},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/soroche},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}