| 单词 | the bends |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe bends b. the bends: the acute attacks of pain in muscles and joints suffered on over-rapid reduction of the surrounding air pressure, chiefly by workers in compressed air who are decompressed too quickly, with consequent liberation of dissolved nitrogen from the body tissues. Also, more loosely, the whole disease (also called caisson-disease) produced by decompression. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > environmental disorders > [noun] > atmospheric pressure puna1835 mountain sickness1848 soroche1878 caisson disease1883 the bends1894 altitude sickness1901 caisson sickness1911 decompression sickness1941 ebullism1956 the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > pain in specific parts > [noun] > in joints joint-ache1576 arthrodynia1790 arthralgia1840 the bends1894 1894 Westm. Gaz. 16 Oct. 3/2 The pressure..is quite enough to give the men a dose of the ‘bend’ [sic] as it is called. 1902 Idler July 485/2 That..terrible air-pressure disease known as the ‘bends’. 1913 M. S. Pembrey & J. Ritchie Text-bk. Gen. Pathol. 494 These pains [in Caisson disease] pass off in a few hours, and are known to the workmen as ‘bends’, apparently because of the flexed positions which they induce. 1962 Listener 29 Mar. 562/1 Nitrogen narcosis must not be confused with decompression sickness, commonly known as the bends. < as lemmas |
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