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Meanings of bends in English
Portuguese
doença de descompressão Pain resulting from rapid change in pressure.
Synonyms
Examples for "decompression sickness"
Examples for "decompression sickness"
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In some divers, underlying conditions can increase the chance of decompression sickness.
2
I was treating a patient for decompression sickness in a hyperbaric chamber.
3
This is often referred to as decompression sickness or 'the bends'.
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This holds the bubble of pressure around the body and prevents decompression sickness.
5
Ascents would last up to three hours so divers could avoid decompression sickness.
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It is not an aeroembolism that afflicts her.
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Adherent cells were eluted by high shear, calcium-free buffer, and air embolism.
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We report a case of systemic air embolism that developed during pleural lavage.
3
Only two complications required intervention: one fatal air embolism and one chest wall hematoma.
4
It's a miracle you've never given yourself an air embolism.
5
It must have been a case of air embolism, insufflation.
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Various explanations have been put forward, including nitrogen narcosis, arterial gas embolism, and simple panic.
2
Finally, FeNO might have a potential in the diagnosis and monitoring of pulmonary gas embolism.
3
Diving can sometimes lead to air or gas embolism, according to the United Kingdom's National Health Service (NHS).
4
It traditionally is known to treat things like carbon monoxide poisoning, air and gas embolism, burns and a whole lot of other issues.
5
This may rupture lung tissue (pulmonary barotrauma), which can lead to gas bubbles being released into the arterial circulation (arterial gas embolism).
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Nick Ryan endured chest pains, broken limbs, bleeding sinuses, and caisson disease-thebends.
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The chief danger of caisson work is the "bends," or " caisson disease."
3
Just a touch of caisson disease, I said.
4
The work was taken over by his son, Washington, who later was stricken with caisson disease & became partly paralyzed.
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The caisson disease is popularly called "the bends" a kind of paralysis which is more or less baffling to medical science.
Usage of bends in English
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The new calculation is based on how light bends around large galaxies.
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Its control in lumpy bends is up there with the class best.
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He goes to the window and bends to see what she means.
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He also bends a shrub, improving the area of his intended swing.
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Zaheer bends one back in above Prior's groin and he's looking dangerous.
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Beautiful open views alternate with the tighter blind pockets of the bends.
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You need to have a material that bends light around an object.
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By out-lasting your competitors and foes, the storyline naturally bends your way.
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Never have I seen such violent twists and bends in a river.
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At one point he bends Marsha over the sink and they grind.
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A prism is wedge-shaped and bends rays of light towards its base.
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The padre bends searching eyes on the youth as the door opens.
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It wasn't really deep enough to have to worry about the bends.
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Proceeded on my former tracks, cutting off the bends of the river.
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A little ahead the river bends-heis nearing the block at Akeanlinna.
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Kamikaze overtaking - on bends, hills and narrow roads - is commonplace.
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