Conditions that aggravate it include exertion, fast ascent and alcohol, all of which were present in his case.

Dr. Dean's impressive numbers and fast ascent - he is now the best-financed Democrat in the race - are accelerating a move toward online fund-raising.

She took hold of one of the pipes and began a fast ascent of the building's wall.

He switched to legal studies, and began a fast ascent through Republican politics and conservative legal circles.

The agency's founders are a little surprised at their fast ascent.

It was not as fast ascent.

A fast ascent might kill him; at least it would keep him away from the nuke, which had to be Chun's plan.

When there's too rapid a build-up of nitrogen bubbles in the blood when you're making a very fast ascent.

After his conversion to Catholicism in 1728, began for Joseph a fast ascent in his military career.

Last of all he buckled on the weighted belt that would come off if he had to make a fast ascent.