Definitions
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- noun physiology The formation of
bubbles ofgas in biologicalfluids due to reduced environmentalpressure
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Examples
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In vacuum, most of us suffer ebullism, which is a swelling caused by the evaporation of water in the soft tissues.
Masked Lou Anders 2010
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In vacuum, most of us suffer ebullism, which is a swelling caused by the evaporation of water in the soft tissues.
Masked Lou Anders 2010
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For Baumgartner's jump, temperatures are expected to be colder than minus 58 degrees Fahrenheit, and the air pressure will be so low that a condition known as ebullism would kill him if the pressure suit were to fail.
Wired Top Stories Jason Paur 2010
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He practically ran into the operating theater, finding Lotte and her nurses treating the survivors for the effects of ebullism and rapid decompression.
Star Trek: Myriad Universes: Shattered Light David R. George III 2010
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In the hostile stratospheric environment Felix plans to traverse, hazards include temperatures as cold as minus 56 degrees Celsius; an environment with too little oxygen to sustain human life; and air pressure so low that decompression sickness and ebullism -- a condition in which blood "boils" with life-threatening vapor bubbles -- are pervasive dangers.
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When the bladder is inflated, it will provide pressure at 3.5 pounds per square inch - sufficient to prevent the expansion caused by ebullism.
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When the bladder is inflated, it will provide pressure at 3.5 pounds per square inch -- sufficient to prevent the expansion caused by ebullism.
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When the bladder is inflated, it will provide pressure at 3.5 pounds per square inch - sufficient to prevent the expansion caused by ebullism.
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In the hostile stratospheric environment Felix plans to traverse, hazards include temperatures as cold as minus 56 degrees Celsius; an environment with too little oxygen to sustain human life; and air pressure so low that decompression sickness and ebullism -- a condition in which blood "boils" with life-threatening vapor bubbles -- are pervasive dangers.
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When the bladder is inflated, it will provide pressure at 3.5 pounds per square inch -- sufficient to prevent the expansion caused by ebullism.
adoarns commented on the word ebullism
The process, when the body is exposed to a substantially lower ambient pressure, of bubbles of formerly dissolved gases forming within the tissues; the proximate cause of "the bends."
December 17, 2007