دیکشنری تخصصی مهندسی نفت - نسخه آنلاین

n: a highly painful and potentially fatal condition in which air or other breathable gases come out of solution in the bloodstream and cause distress or death. So named because the bending joints of the body are most often affected. Also called decompression sickness.

n: a condition resulting from the formation of gas bubbles in a divers blood or tissues during ascent. Failure to rid tissues of the inert gas may cause a wide variety of symptoms, including pain, nausea, paralysis, unconsciousness, temporary blindness, and even death. Also called the bends.

n: increasing the ambient pressure on a diver for the primary purpose of treating decompression sickness.

n: a process used by divers to eliminate inert gases from the tissues, whereby they breathe high partial pressures of oxygen while resting after a dive to reduce the risk of getting decompression sickness.