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Meaning of caisson disease

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

caisson disease

noun

Definitions

  1. 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.

Sources:https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/caisson%20disease

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