Medical Definition of Hypobarism
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Dysbarism resulting from decreasing barometric pressure on the body without hypoxia; gas in body cavities tends to expand, and gases dissolved in body fluids tend to come out of solution as bubbles.
Compare: decompression sickness.
Synonym: hypobaria.
(05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hypobarism
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