caisson disease

Εννοια (Αγγλικός)

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.

Συνώνυμα

gas embolism

diver’s disease

compressed-air illness

Μεταφράσεις

Druckluftkrankheit

caissonziekte

Doença de descompressão

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