Usually means: Decompression sickness from rapid ascent.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. the bends: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. the bends, the bends: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. the bends: Collins English Dictionary
  4. the bends: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. the bends: Wiktionary
  6. the bends: Dictionary.com
  7. The Bends (album), The Bends (song), The Bends, The bends (album), The bends: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. the bends: FreeDictionary.org
  9. The Bends: TheFreeDictionary.com
  10. the bends: Merriam-Webster

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  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Bends: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The bends (album), the bends: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wikipedia (The Bends)

▸ noun:  the second studio album by the English rock band Radiohead, released on 13 March 1995 by Parlophone.
▸ noun:  "The Bends" is a song by the English rock band Radiohead from their second studio album, The Bends.
▸ noun:  "The bends" is a colloquialism for decompression sickness.


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