the bends

Acute decompression sickness, the chokes Internal medicine A clinical complex caused by rapid whole body decompression, with intravascular 'boiling' of nitrogen, and resultant M&M in scuba divers and high-altitude pilots or workers in high-pressure environments–eg, caissons–in chronic decompression sickness Clinical Headache, N&V, vertigo, tinnitus, dyspnea, tachypnea, convulsions, shock, joint and abdominal pain; nitrogen gas in the brain causes 'boxcar' air bubbles in meningeal vessels separating the blood 'column', potentially causing death. Cf Caisson disease.

单词	the bends
释义	DictionarySeedecompression sickness the bends the bends Acute decompression sickness, the chokes Internal medicine A clinical complex caused by rapid whole body decompression, with intravascular 'boiling' of nitrogen, and resultant M&M in scuba divers and high-altitude pilots or workers in high-pressure environments–eg, caissons–in chronic decompression sickness Clinical Headache, N&V, vertigo, tinnitus, dyspnea, tachypnea, convulsions, shock, joint and abdominal pain; nitrogen gas in the brain causes 'boxcar' air bubbles in meningeal vessels separating the blood 'column', potentially causing death. Cf Caisson disease.
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