English Explanatory Dictionary

caisson disease

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. 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.

Word forms

caisson disease

Synonyms

the bends decompression sickness aeroembolism air embolism gas embolism

Related words

nitrogen narcosis
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