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  2. Cellulitis - Wikipedia

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    Occurrences of cellulitis may also be associated with the rare condition hidradenitis suppurativa or dissecting cellulitis. [14] The appearance of the skin assists a doctor in determining a diagnosis. A doctor may also suggest blood tests, a wound culture, or other tests to help rule out a blood clot deep in the veins of the legs.

  3. Physiology of decompression - Wikipedia

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    The rapidly diffusing gas is transported into the tissue faster than the slower diffusing gas is transported out of the tissue. [42] This can occur as divers switch from a nitrogen mixture to a helium mixture (diffusivity of helium is 2.65 times faster than nitrogen), [42] or when saturation divers breathing hydreliox switch to a heliox mixture ...

  4. Livedoid vasculopathy - Wikipedia

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    Livedo racemosa or, less commonly, livedo reticularis are symptoms of such thrombosis, which causes blood and pressure to build up in the dermal superficial veins. [8] The oxygen partial pressure in the skin decreases as a result of the blood flow obstruction, triggering a cutaneous response that presents as pruritus with itchy papules and ...

  5. Decompression theory - Wikipedia

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    Gas is breathed at ambient pressure, and some of this gas dissolves into the blood and other fluids. Inert gas continues to be taken up until the gas dissolved in the tissues is in a state of equilibrium with the gas in the lungs (see saturation diving), or the ambient pressure is reduced until the inert gases dissolved in the tissues are at a higher concentration than the equilibrium state ...

  6. Anaerobic infection - Wikipedia

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    Anaerobic bacteria can be divided into strict anaerobes that can not grow in the presence of more than 0.5% oxygen and moderate anaerobic bacteria that are able of growing between 2 and 8% oxygen. [1] Anaerobic bacteria usually do not possess catalase, but some can generate superoxide dismutase which protects them from oxygen.

  7. Can a Skin Blanching Test Tell You if a Rash is Serious ... - AOL

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    The blanching skin test is used to determine if a rash or discoloration disappears when pressure is applied, which may be a sign of another illness. ...

  8. Decompression sickness - Wikipedia

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    One of the more frequently used treatment schedules is the US Navy Table 6, which provides hyperbaric oxygen therapy with a maximum pressure equivalent to 60 feet (18 m) of seawater (2.8 bar P O 2) for a total time under pressure of 288 minutes, of which 240 minutes are on oxygen and the balance are air breaks to minimise the possibility of ...

  9. Near-infrared window in biological tissue - Wikipedia

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    Blood consists of two different types of hemoglobin: oxyhemoglobin is bound to oxygen, while deoxyhemoglobin is unbound to oxygen. These two different types of hemoglobin exhibit different absorption spectra that are normally represented in terms of molar extinction coefficients, as shown in Figure 1.