sorochoとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

sorocho ‎(uncountable)

1. Alternative form of soroche
   • 1877, Ernst Wagner, A Manual of General Pathology^[1]:

     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^[2], 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^[3], 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.