decompression
51explosive decompression — decompression more rapid than that corresponding to a rate of ascent greater than 5000 feet per minute …
52decompression chamber — See hyperbaric chamber …
53decompression sickness — A syndrome, including bends, chokes, neurological disturbances, and collapse, resulting from exposure to reduced ambient pressure and caused by gas bubbles in the tissues, fluids, and blood vessels …
54decompression sickness — noun Date: 1941 a sometimes fatal disorder that is marked by neuralgic pains and paralysis, distress in breathing, and often collapse and that is caused by the release of gas bubbles (as of nitrogen) in tissue upon too rapid decrease in air… …
55decompression sickness — gas bubble disease (supersaturated gases (>125%) in water entering the the body fluids of fish causing bubbles, an embolism). Also called bends or Caisson s disease …
56decompression chamber. — See hyperbaric chamber. [1930 35] * * * …
57decompression tables. — See dive tables. * * * …
58decompression bomb — noun A file with a very high compression ratio, thus expected to consume a high amount of memory and disk space when decompressed …
59decompression of heart — pericardiotomy with evacuation of blood or fluid; called also d. of pericardium …
60decompression of pericardium — d. of heart …