caisson disease

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Noun

caisson disease (uncountable)

1. (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

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