caisson disease

English

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

Translations
decompression sickness — see decompression sickness

See also
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