No matter how many definitions of this I read, I don’t grasp what it is.
In: Biology
Eli5: Your leg, for example, has two expandable tubes in it. One has blood flowing and the other one has everything else in it. Normally both are lightly inflated and things flow in and out and everything is ok. If the one without blood starts to expand (too much of everything else), it squeezes the one with blood and stops the flow of blood. This is compartment syndrome. This is very bad and you need to burst the one with everything else to get the blood flowing again.
It’s a bit more nuanced than that, but you’re only 5.
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