| Webster's Online Dictionary |
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| High-altitude pulmonary edema | Medicine | It routinely occurs above 9, 000 feet, although it afflicts some people at lower altitudes. The symptoms-including shortness of breath, severe cough, blood-tinged sputum, headache, lethargy and mild fever-usually develop after 36 or 72 hours at altitude. Source: European Union. (references) | |
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