Decompression Sickness
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Decompression Sickness
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A disorder experienced by deep sea divers and aviators caused by reduced
atmospheric pressure and evolved gas bubbles in the body, marked by pain in
the extremities, pain in the chest (chokes), occasionally leading to serve
central nervous symptoms and neurocirculatory collapse. See bends, dysbarism.
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