Definitions for caisson disease
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Random House Webster's College Dictionary
cais′son disease`(n.)
Category: Pathology
Ref: decompression sickness .
Origin of caisson disease:
1880–85, Amer.
Princeton's WordNet
decompression sickness, aeroembolism, air embolism, gas embolism, caisson disease, bends(noun)
pain resulting from rapid change in pressure
Wiktionary
caisson disease(Noun)
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.
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