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illness
(redirected from decompression sickness)

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illness noun affliction, ailing, ailment, complaint, disability, disease, disorder, infirmity, malady, sickness
Associated concepts: mental illness, terminal illness, Unemployment Compensation, Workers' Compensation Law
See also: disability, disease, disorder, prostration
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Among the most popular draws was the chance to see the hospital's dive chamber - which is used to treat divers who suffer life-threatening decompression sickness.
Hospital day attracts 600; YOUR charities by Coventry Evening Telegraph (England)
The treatment is used to tackle decompression sickness in divers, and to help injured elite footballers heal more quickly.
Cancer patients try out oxygen by Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England)
The treatment is used to tackle decompression sickness in divers, and to help injured elite footballers heal more quickly.
Oxygen chamber aids side effects by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
 
 
 
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