caisson disease

noun

Definitions

  1. The painful condition in which bubbles of nitrogen form in body tissues after a person…

    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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