caisson disease

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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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aeroembolism air embolism decompression sickness gas embolism the bends bends bend cavitation bacterascites cavernositis pneumatosis cryptitis dysbarism ebullism bubble boy syndrome cystinosis emphysematous cystitis lungsickness

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