caisson disease

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caisson disease

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uncountable 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.
Similar: the bends, decompression sickness, aeroembolism, air embolism, gas embolism

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@misc{caisson_disease_2026,
  title = {caisson disease},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/caisson%20disease},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}