the bends
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I can see knots under the skin in the bends of his arm.
From Salon • Oct. 11, 2025
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
Mr. Keller used a new cocktail of gases intended to lessen the risks of the bends.
From Washington Post • Dec. 25, 2022
When divers rose to the surface too fast, they risked decompression sickness, also known as the bends, where the wrong gases build up in the blood.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 22, 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
