caisson disease
English
Noun
- (pathology, nautical) The painful condition in which bubbles of nitrogen form in body tissues after a person makes too-rapid a transition from high atmospheric pressure to lower atmospheric pressure.
Synonyms
- the bends
- decompression sickness
- aeroembolism
- air embolism
- gas embolism
Translations
decompression sickness — see decompression sickness
See also
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