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Environment and Public Health > Environment > Altitude
Biological Phenomena > Ecological and Environmental Phenomena > Environment > Altitude

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Altitude  

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  • Topical Descriptor

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Note

  • consider also ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; /adv eff = probably ALTITUDE SICKNESS

Scope note

  • A vertical distance measured from a known level on the surface of a planet or other celestial body.

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D000531

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