Altitude

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altitude sickness, mountain sickness

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environment

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• A high altitude is also dangerous for people who havesevere lung disease, such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) or severe emphysema, and for people who havesevere heart disease.
• If the altitude is greater than 90 degrees, it should be measured from a point on the horizon 180 degrees away in azimuth.
• It seems that being transported passively to high altitude is less likely to induce altitude illness as quickly as hiking to the same height.
• In astronomy, altitude is the angular distance of a heavenly body above the astronomical horizon as determined by the angle which a line drawn from the eye of the observer to the heavenly body makes with the plane of the horizon.
• Altitude is the angular distance of a celestial body above or below the observer's horizon, measured along a great circle passing through the body and the observer's zenith.

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