the bends
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Decompression sickness, also known as "the bends", is a problem typically associated with scuba diving, which bubbles form inside the body due to a change in external pressure.
From BBC • Jun. 13, 2024
In an archived version of the Navy's FAQ, the animals are praised, along with sea lions, for their resistance to pressure-change sickness known as "the bends" that can be detrimental to human divers when resurfacing.
From Salon • Jun. 30, 2023
Even as global food prices rise, many people including Gueye’s clientele still favour imports over the rice grown along the bends of the Senegal river valley in the north.
From Reuters • Oct. 20, 2022
Tests later determined that a supersaturation event had caused gas bubbles inside the rays, similar to the bends in human scuba divers.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 8, 2022
I look and I look and I don’t see no settlement but who knows what’s around the bends and curves?
From "The Knife of Never Letting Go" by Patrick Ness
