Space medicine

Am Sci. 1984 Sep-Oct;72(5):495-7.

Abstract

How does the human body adapt to conditions of weightlessness, and are the changes reversible?

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Adaptation, Physiological*
  • Aerospace Medicine*
  • Astronauts*
  • Bone Demineralization, Pathologic / physiopathology
  • Fluid Shifts / physiology
  • Humans
  • Muscular Atrophy / physiopathology
  • Space Flight*
  • Space Motion Sickness / etiology
  • Space Motion Sickness / physiopathology
  • United States
  • United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration
  • Weightlessness / adverse effects*
  • Weightlessness Countermeasures