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Barotrauma

Barotrauma (Greek barys – weight, pressure + Greek trauma – a wound) – the traumatizing vozdukhsoderzhashchy bodies (lungs, a tympanic cavity, paranasal sinuses) caused by sharp change (difference) of barometric pressure.

 
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