caisson disease

noun

caisson disease

noun

Medicine, Nautical, Pathology, Sciences, Transport 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
Related terms: nitrogen narcosis

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