denitrogenation
dee-NY-truh-juh-NAY-shun
Definition
The process of removing dissolved nitrogen gas from the body's tissues.
Etymology
Derived from the prefix 'de-' (meaning removal) and 'nitrogen' (a chemical element), plus the suffix '-ation' used to form nouns denoting a process. It emerged in technical medical and scientific contexts to describe the extraction of nitrogen from a medium.
In the news
An expert uses this term to define the physiological goal of the prebreathe protocol, which prevents decompression sickness before astronauts undergo depressurization for a spacewalk.
Before every spacewalk, astronauts spend hours breathing pure oxygen inside their own bodies for one specific reason — to stop their blood from doing to them exactly what nearly happened to test subjects inside vacuum chambers on Earth
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