Translation for 'decompression sickness' from English to Finnish

decompression sickness

dekompressiotauti {noun}lää

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sickness

pahoinvointi {noun}

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sea sickness

meritauti {noun}lää

radiation sickness

säteilysairaus {noun}lää

altitude sickness

vuoristotauti {noun}lää

mountain sickness

vuoristotauti {noun}lää

motion sickness

matkapahoinvointi {noun}lää

travel sickness

matkapahoinvointi {noun}lää

• It is the definitive treatment for severe decompression sickness, which is largely a condition involving localized hypoxia initially caused by inert gas embolism and inflammatory reactions to extravascular bubble growth.
• For EVAs from the International Space Station, NASA employed a "camp-out" procedure to reduce the risk of decompression sickness.
• Release of gas from the bloodstream can cause a deep-sea diver to suffer from decompression sickness (a.k.a. ...
• Diagnosis of decompression sickness relies almost entirely on clinical presentation, as there are no laboratory tests that can incontrovertibly confirm or reject the diagnosis.
• According to different sources, the term "The Bends" for decompression sickness was coined by workers of either the Brooklyn or the Eads bridge, and was given because afflicted individuals characteristically arched their backs in a manner similar to a then-fashionable posture known as the Grecian Bend.

• To avoid decompression sickness, they would have to hang from hoses halfway up the tank for as long as two hours, breathing pure oxygen.
• This procedure purges the body of dissolved nitrogen, so as to avoid decompression sickness due to rapid depressurization from a nitrogen-containing atmosphere.
• A consequence of the higher loading in some tissues is that many decompression algorithms require deeper decompression stops than a similar pressure exposure dive using air, and helium is more likely to come out of solution and cause decompression sickness following a fast ascent.
• The review suggested the strength of response of individual animals may depend on whether they had prior exposure to sonar, and that symptoms of decompression sickness have been found in stranded whales that may be a result of such response to sonar.
• The use of a gas mixture carries the risk of decompression sickness (commonly known as "the bends") when transitioning to or from the pure oxygen space suit environment.

• Nitrox is not a safer gas than compressed air in all respects; although its use can reduce the risk of decompression sickness, it increases the risks of oxygen toxicity and fire.