Acute Mountain Sickness

Views Updated: Dec 15, 2025

Key Facts

Abbreviation
AMS
Pronunciation
/əˈkjut ˈmaʊntən ˈsɪknəs/
Category
Medical
Related Field
Physiology

Examples in Context

  1. Objective To realize the incidence of acute mountain sickness ( AMS ) and discuss its preventive measure.
  2. Advances in the acute mountain sickness and the high altitude cerebral edema
  3. Conclusion : The blood pH may used to predict of susceptible population of acute mountain sickness.
  4. Purpose To investigate the relationship between brain CT manifestations and pathologic changes of acute mountain sickness and / or high altitude cerebral edema in cats.
  5. The purpose of this investigation was to study the pathogenesis of acute mountain sickness by the observation of changes in brain microcirculation under acute hypoxia.

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