Medical Device
hyperbaric chamber
[ hahy-per-bar-ik cheym-ber ]
Definitions related to hyperbaric chamber:
  • A hyperbaric chamber is a device that is intended to increase the environmental oxygen pressure to promote the movement of oxygen from the environment to a patient's tissue by means of pressurization that is greater than atmospheric pressure. This device does not include topical oxygen chambers for extremities (Sec. 878.5650).
    Standard Product Nomenclature
    U.S Food & Drug Administration, 2003
  • Compartment in which air pressure may be raised to greater than atmospheric pressure.
    CRISP Thesaurus
    National Institutes of Health, 2006
  • Hyperbaric chamber, sealed chamber in which a high-pressure environment is used primarily to treat decompression sickness, gas embolism, carbon monoxide poisoning, gas gangrene resulting from infection by anaerobic bacteria, tissue injury arising from radiation therapy for cancer...
    Encyclopedia Britannica
    Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc., 2025
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