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Categories: Medical emergencies, Aviation medicine, Diving decompression, Effects of external causes, Articles with permanently dead external links
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decompression sickness  aeroembolism  air embolism  gas embolism  caisson disease
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Pain resulting from rapid change in pressure WordNet 3.0
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Pain resulting from rapid change in pressure WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
Decompression sickness is a medical condition caused by dissolved gases emerging from solution as bubbles inside the body tissues during decompression. Wikipedia
A condition arising from the formation and growth of bubbles of gas within the tissues of the body during and after depressurization Wikipedia Disambiguation
Condition arising on depressurisation of the body Wikidata
The painful condition in which bubbles of nitrogen form in body tissues after a person makes too-rapid a transition from high atmospheric pressure to lower atmospheric pressure. Wiktionary
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 in the joints and chest, skin irritation, cramps, nausea, and paralysis. Wiktionary
Condition from rapid decompression. Wiktionary (translation)