decompression disease
1decompression disease — n. disorder (characterized by joint pains, skin lesions, respiratory difficulties and neurologic signs) that aircraft pilots experience when flying at high altitudes and following fast reduction of air pressure in people who have been breathing… …
2decompression sickness — n 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 pressure after a… …
3Decompression sickness — Caisson disease [decompression sickness] Classification and external resources Two United States Navy sailors prepare for training inside a decompression chamber …
4decompression 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 …
5Disease — Illness or sickness often characterized by typical patient problems (symptoms) and physical findings (signs). Disruption sequence: The events that occur when a fetus that is developing normally is subjected to a destructive agent such as the… …
6decompression — The reduction of atmospheric pressure. Particularly, various techniques for preventing decompression sickness (also called caisson disease) by gradual decompression. Decompression sickness is caused by the evolution of nitrogen bubbles in the… …
7disease — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Condition of ill health Nouns 1. disease, illness, sickness, ailment, ailing; morbidity, infirmity, ailment, indisposition; complaint, disorder, malady; functional disorder. 2. condition, affliction,… …
8decompression — n. 1 release from compression. 2 a gradual reduction of air pressure on a person who has been subjected to high pressure (esp. underwater). Phrases and idioms: decompression chamber an enclosed space for subjecting a person to decompression.… …
9decompression 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… …
10Disease, rotator cuff — Damage to the rotator cuff, a group of four tendons that stabilize the shoulder joint and move the shoulder in various directions. A common cause of shoulder pain, rotator cuff disease can be due to trauma (e.g., from falling and injuring the… …
