Cumulative Sperm Whale Bone Damage and the Bends
@article{Moore2004CumulativeSW, title={Cumulative Sperm Whale Bone Damage and the Bends}, author={M. Moore and G. Early}, journal={Science}, year={2004}, volume={306}, pages={2215 - 2215} }
Diving mosasaurs, plesiosaurs, and humans develop dysbaric osteonecrosis from end-artery nitrogen embolism ("the bends") in certain bones. Sixteen sperm whales from calves to large adults showed a size-related development of osteonecrosis in chevron and rib bone articulations, deltoid crests, and nasal bones. Occurrence in animals from the Pacific and Atlantic oceans over 111 years made a pathophysiological diagnosis of dysbarism most likely. Decompression avoidance therefore may constrain… CONTINUE READING
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