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barotrauma

A generic term for injury caused by pressure. Although squeeze is a colloquialism, it is an excellent descriptive term for all of the phenomena that occur when a rigid closed space within the body or on its surface fails to equalize with external pressure during descent, or is for some reason vented to lower pressure than that acting at the depth.

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