Medical Subject Headings

Last uploaded: January 31, 2024
Preferred Name

Decompression

Synonyms
Definitions

Decompression external to the body, most often the slow lessening of external pressure on the whole body (especially in caisson workers, deep sea divers, and persons who ascend to great heights) to prevent DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS. It includes also sudden accidental decompression, but not surgical (local) decompression or decompression applied through body openings.

ID

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/D003664

AN

restrict to "decompression external to the body": not for surg decompression ( = DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL)

AQL

AE CL EC ES HI IS MO MT NU PX SN ST TD VE

cui

C0011117

DC

1

definition

Decompression external to the body, most often the slow lessening of external pressure on the whole body (especially in caisson workers, deep sea divers, and persons who ascend to great heights) to prevent DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS. It includes also sudden accidental decompression, but not surgical (local) decompression or decompression applied through body openings.

DX

19800101

HN

80(75)

Inverse of AQ

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/Q000266

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/Q000379

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/Q000706

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/Q000662

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/Q000009

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/Q000941

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/Q000191

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/Q000145

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/Q000592

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/Q000295

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/Q000451

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/Q000639

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/Q000523

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/Q000401

Machine permutation

80; see PRESSURE 1975-79

MDA

19741111

MMR

20080708

MN

E02.278

G01.374.715.250

notation

D003664

prefLabel

Decompression

TERMUI

T010669

TH

NLM (1975)

tui

T067

subClassOf

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/D013812

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/D011312

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