Diseases

Inert Gas Narcosis

Progressive mental disturbances and unconsciousness due to breathing mixtures of oxygen and inert gases (argon, helium, xenon, krypton, and atmospheric nitrogen) at high pressure.

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Abstract

Progressive mental disturbances and unconsciousness due to breathing mixtures of oxygen and inert gases (argon, helium, xenon, krypton, and atmospheric nitrogen) at high pressure.

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Synonyms

11 entry terms
  • Inert Gas Narcoses
  • Narcoses, Inert Gas
  • Narcosis, Inert Gas
  • Depth Intoxication
  • Nitrogen Narcosis
  • Depth Intoxications
  • Intoxication, Depth
  • Intoxications, Depth
  • Narcoses, Nitrogen
  • Narcosis, Nitrogen
  • Nitrogen Narcoses

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34 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, classification, complications, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, veterinary, virology.

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Indexing Annotation

IM; specify gas (IM)

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70(68)

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Previous Indexing

  • specific gas (1966-1967)

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  1. C24w.426w
  2. C25.723.455.571w

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Inert Gas Narcosis. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D007222. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D007222
  2. Inert Gas Narcosis. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrogen_narcosis
  3. Inert Gas Narcosis. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q581152