decompression
31Decompression 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… …
32Decompression chamber — A decompression chamber is a pressure vessel used in surface supplied diving to allow the divers to complete their decompression stops at the end of a dive on the surface rather than underwater. This eliminates many of the risks of long… …
33decompression 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 …
34Decompression trapeze — A decompression trapeze is a device used in recreational diving and technical diving to make decompression stops more comfortable and more secure and provide the divers surface cover with a visual reference for the divers position.It consists of… …
35decompression sickness — A sickness caused by the evolution of nitrogen bubbles in the body as a result of the effects of reduced atmospheric pressure. Normal symptoms of decompression sickness are the bends, chokes, creeps, unconsciousness, and neurological symptoms. It …
36decompression chamber — hipobarokamera statusas T sritis Gynyba apibrėžtis Kamera, naudojama slėgiui sumažinti iki tokio, kuris pasiekiamas kylant aukštyn. Šios kameros yra naudojamos mokymui ir tyrinėjimams. atitikmenys: angl. altitude chamber; decompression chamber;… …
37decompression sickness — Caisson disease Cais son dis*ease (Med.) A disease frequently induced by remaining for some time in an atmosphere of high pressure, as in caissons, diving bells, etc. It is characterized by neuralgic pains and paralytic symptoms. It is caused by… …
38decompression sickness — noun A sometimes fatal condition resulting from the formation of nitrogen bubbles in the blood and tissues, because of too rapid decompression, seen especially in deep sea divers ascending rapidly from a dive. It is characterized by severe pains… …
39decompression sickness — noun a condition that results when too rapid decompression causes nitrogen bubbles to form in the tissues of the body, characterized by pain in the muscles and joints, cramp, numbness, nausea, and paralysis …
40decompression — noun see decompress …
