Biomaterial Database

Decompression sickness. 1977

R H Strauss, and D E Yount

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D003665	Decompression Sickness	A condition occurring as a result of exposure to a rapid fall in ambient pressure. Gases, nitrogen in particular, come out of solution and form bubbles in body fluid and blood. These gas bubbles accumulate in joint spaces and the peripheral circulation impairing tissue oxygenation causing disorientation, severe pain, and potentially death.	Bends,Caisson Disease,Caisson Diseases,Disease, Caisson,Diseases, Caisson,Sickness, Decompression
D005399	Fishes	A group of cold-blooded, aquatic vertebrates having gills, fins, a cartilaginous or bony endoskeleton, and elongated bodies covered with scales.
D006801	Humans	Members of the species Homo sapiens.	Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D000818	Animals	Unicellular or multicellular, heterotrophic organisms, that have sensation and the power of voluntary movement. Under the older five kingdom paradigm, Animalia was one of the kingdoms. Under the modern three domain model, Animalia represents one of the many groups in the domain EUKARYOTA.	Animal,Metazoa,Animalia
D014907	Whales	Large marine mammals of the order CETACEA. In the past, they were commercially valued for whale oil, for their flesh as human food and in ANIMAL FEED and FERTILIZERS, and for baleen. Today, there is a moratorium on most commercial whaling, as all species are either listed as endangered or threatened.	Beaked Whales,Berardius,Caperea,Dwarf Sperm Whale,Giant Bottle-Nosed Whales,Goose-Beaked Whale,Gray Whale,Mesoplodon,Narwhals,Pygmy Right Whale,Pygmy Sperm Whale,Right Whale, North Atlantic,Right Whale, Southern,Ziphiidae,Ziphius,Eschrichtius robustus,Eubalaena australis,Grey Whale,Monodon monoceros,North Atlantic Right Whale,Beaked Whale,Bottle-Nosed Whale, Giant,Bottle-Nosed Whales, Giant,Dwarf Sperm Whales,Giant Bottle Nosed Whales,Giant Bottle-Nosed Whale,Goose Beaked Whale,Goose-Beaked Whales,Gray Whales,Grey Whales,Narwhal,Pygmy Right Whales,Pygmy Sperm Whales,Right Whale, Pygmy,Right Whales, Pygmy,Right Whales, Southern,Southern Right Whale,Southern Right Whales,Sperm Whale, Dwarf,Sperm Whale, Pygmy,Sperm Whales, Dwarf,Sperm Whales, Pygmy,Whale,Whale, Grey,Whale, Southern Right,Whales, Grey,Whales, Southern Right