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High-altitude medicine: The scientific study of effects of high altitude on health. [e]
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Parent topics
- Medicine [r]: The study of health and disease of the human body. [e]
- Altitude [r]: Distance above a planetary reference point, such as the mean sea level. [e]
- Aviation [r]: The art or science of flying aircraft; also the design, production, and maintenance of aircraft. [e]
- Mountains [r]: Add brief definition or description
Subtopics
- High-altitude sickness [r]: Add brief definition or description
- High-altitude cerebral edema [r]: Add brief definition or description
- High-altitude pulmonary edema [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Air pressure [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Partial pressure of Oxygen [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Partial pressure of Carbon dioxide [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Cryobiology [r]: The study of living organisms, organs, biological tissues or biological cells at low temperatures. [e]
- Nazi high altitude experiments [r]: A series of Nazi experiments conducted, against the will of the subjects, on concentration camp prisoners, frequently resulting in death or severe injury. They were intended to learn human responses to the cold and oxygen deprivation of high-altitude flight. [e]
- Mountaineering [r]: The sport of climbing mountains. [e]