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noun
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Topics: medicine, nautical, pathology, sciences, transport
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
pain resulting from rapid change in pressure
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: decompression sickness, aeroembolism, air embolism, gas embolism, bends
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: illness, unwellness, malady, sickness
History
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