sorocho
English
Noun
sorocho (uncountable)
- Alternative form of soroche
- 1877, Ernst Wagner, A Manual of General Pathology:
- New-comers upon those elevated parts of the Andes suffer from "puna," or "sorocho," an acclimation disease, characterized by piercing chilliness, headache, and nausea.
- 1888, Henry Hurd Rusby, Coca at Home and Abroad, page 16:
- The facts probably are that the ordinary symptoms of sorocho are aggravated by the putrid emanations from the tombs, and the virulent diseases result from the latter cause.
- 1889, “Animals that are vanishing”, in The American Magazine, volume 27, page 189:
- A traveler who has explored the mountains of Bolivia and reru, in search of gold and silver mines, tells me that Indian postilions, using coca freely when driving pack-mules over the roughest roads along the Sierras, even when the sorocho prevails, outstrip well-mounted horsemen.
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