caisson disease
Meaning
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
gas embolism
diver’s disease
compressed-air illness
Translations
Druckluftkrankheit
aeroembolismo
caissonziekte
Doença de descompressão
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