Usually means: Decompression sickness from increased pressure.
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  1. caisson disease: Merriam-Webster
  2. caisson disease: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. caisson disease: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. caisson disease: Collins English Dictionary
  5. caisson disease: Vocabulary.com
  6. caisson disease: Wordnik
  7. caisson disease: Wiktionary
  8. caisson disease: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. caisson disease: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. caisson disease: Dictionary.com
  11. Caisson disease: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. caisson disease: Rhymezone
  13. caisson disease: FreeDictionary.org
  14. caisson disease: Mnemonic Dictionary
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  1. caisson disease: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. caisson disease: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Caisson disease: Merck Manuals
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  5. caisson disease: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (caisson disease)

noun:  (pathology, nautical) 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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