realized in response to realized in response to exposure to increased pressure high pressure neurological syndrome decompression sickness MONDO:0020797 bends 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. Divers' palsy The bends Compressed-air disease Caisson Diseases MESH:D003665 Divers' paralysis Diseases, Caisson Bends MEDGEN:41434 CAISSON DIS Compressed air disease SCTID:89684003 UMLS:C0011119 Caisson Disease Disease, Caisson Sickness, Decompression decompression sickness ICD9:993.3 Caisson disease Rapture of the deep syndrome