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caisson disease

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caisson disease
n.
Decompression sickness.
caisson disease
n
(Medicine / Pathology) another name for decompression sickness
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Noun1.caisson disease - pain resulting from rapid change in pressurecaisson 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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