altitude decompression sickness
1Decompression sickness — Caisson disease [decompression sickness] Classification and external resources Two United States Navy sailors prepare for training inside a decompression chamber …
2decompression sickness — Pathol. aeroembolism (def. 2). [1940 45] * * * also called the bends or caisson disease Harmful effects of rapid change from a higher to a lower pressure environment. Small amounts of the gases in air are dissolved in body tissues. When pilots of …
3Altitude diving — is scuba diving where the surface is 300 meters (1,000 feet) or more above sea level (for example, a mountain lake). [cite book |title=Encyclopedia of Recreational Diving, 3rd edition |last=Brylske |first=A. |year=2006 |publisher=PADI… …
4Decompression (diving) — Divers decompressing in the water at the end of a dive Decompression in the context of diving derives from the reduction in ambient pressure experienced by the diver during the ascent at the end of a dive or hyperbaric exposure and refers to both …
5sickness — n. 1) altitude, mountain; car; decompression; morning; motion, travel; radiation; sea; sleeping sickness 2) in sickness (and in health) * * * [ sɪknɪs] car decompression morning motion mountain …
6Decompression Schedule — A Decompression Schedule is a series of increasingly shallower decompression stops for (usually) increasing amounts of time that a diver uses to offgas inert gases from the diver body on the ascent to the surface to reduce the risk of… …
7sickness — /sik nis/, n. 1. a particular disease or malady. 2. the state or an instance of being sick; illness. 3. nausea; queasiness. [bef. 1000; ME siknesse, seknesse, OE seocnesse. See SICK1, NESS] * * * (as used in expressions) altitude sickness… …
8decompression — Removal of pressure. [L. de , from, down, + com primo, pp. pressus, to press together] cardiac d. incision into the pericardium or aspiration of fluid from the pericardium to relieve pressure due to blood or other fluid in the pericard …
9Maladie De Décompression — La maladie de décompression (DCS en anglais pour Decompression sickness), la maladie des plongeurs , ou maladie des caissons fait souvent suite à l accident de décompression, un accident de plongée sous marine.[1] C’est le nom qu’on donne à une… …
10Maladie de decompression — Maladie de décompression La maladie de décompression (DCS en anglais pour Decompression sickness), la maladie des plongeurs , ou maladie des caissons fait souvent suite à l accident de décompression, un accident de plongée sous marine.[1] C’est… …
