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caisson disease

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caisson disease
n.
Decompression sickness.
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Noun1.caisson disease - pain resulting from rapid change in pressure
bends, decompression sickness, gas embolism, aeroembolism, air embolism
illness, sickness, unwellness, malady - impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism


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We learn, for example, about the crippling caisson disease (the bends) that forced Washington Roebling to complete work on the Brooklyn Bridge using field glasses from a wheelchair in a nearby apartment, and about Barcelona's maverick architect Antoni Gaudi, who slept on the site of his final project.
Bo Zaunders: Gargoyles, Girders & Glass Houses: Magnificent Master ... by Bloom, Susan P. / The Horn Book Magazine
In building his magnificent bridge, Eads faced the common curse of many engineers in the mid-1860s: what was then called caisson disease and is now called "the bends," or decompression disease.
What we don't know can hurt us. (Editor's Note) by Rothstein, Jules M / Physical Therapy
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