the bends

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I can see knots under the skin in the bends of his arm.

From Salon • Oct. 11, 2025

At the end of each stint he spent 16 hours in a decompression chamber so he didn't get the bends - caused by bubbles forming in the blood.

From BBC • May 28, 2023

Mr. Keller used a new cocktail of gases intended to lessen the risks of the bends.

From Washington Post • Dec. 25, 2022

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

By 1910, some twenty thousand sponge divers were permanently disabled by the bends, and another ten thousand were killed.

From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler