COMPRESSED AIR DISEASE

  

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COMPRESSED AIR DISEASE

Specialty Definition: COMPRESSED AIR DISEASE

DomainDefinition

Medicine

Joint pains, respiratory distress, and central nervous system symptoms which may follow decompression after exposure to air or other gas mixture at a pressure greater than the normal atmospheric pressure. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: COMPRESSED AIR DISEASE

Language Translations for "COMPRESSED AIR DISEASE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

caisson-sygdom (aeroembolism, caisson disease, caisson sickness, compressed air illness, decompression illness, decompression sickness, ebullism), dykkersyge (aeroembolism, bends, caisson disease, caisson sickness, compressed air illness, decompression disease, decompression illness, decompression sickness, diver's sickness, ebullism). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

dysbarisme (aeroembolism, caisson disease, caisson sickness, compressed air illness, decompression illness, decompression sickness, ebullism). (various references)

   

French

  

maladie des caissons (compressed air illness), aéro-embolisme (compressed air illness), aéroembolisme (compressed air illness). (various references)

   

German

  

Caissonkrankheit (aeroembolism, bends, caisson disease, caisson sickness, compressed air illness, decompression illness, decompression sickness, diver's sickness, ebullism), Ebullismus (aeroembolism, caisson disease, caisson sickness, compressed air illness, decompression illness, decompression sickness, ebullism), Druckfallsyndrom (aeroembolism, caisson disease, caisson sickness, compressed air illness, decompression illness, decompression sickness, ebullism), Druckfallkrankheit (aeroembolism, caisson disease, caisson sickness, compressed air illness, decompression disease, decompression illness, decompression sickness, ebullism), Druckabfallkrankheit (aeroembolism, caisson disease, caisson sickness, compressed air illness, decompression illness, decompression sickness, ebullism), Dekompressionskrankheit (decompression sickness), Aeroembolismus (aeroembolism, caisson disease, caisson sickness, compressed air illness, decompression illness, decompression sickness, ebullism). (various references)

   

Italian

  

malattia dei cassoni (aeroembolism, bends, caisson disease, caisson sickness, compressed air illness, decompression illness, decompression sickness, diver's sickness, ebullism). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ompressedcay airay iseaseday

   

Spanish

  

enfermedad de descompresión (aeroembolism, caisson disease, caisson sickness, compressed air illness, decompression illness, decompression sickness, ebullism). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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INDEX

1. Translations: Modern
2. Bibliography


  

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