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Meanings of caisson disease in English
Portuguese
doença de descompressão Pain resulting from rapid change in pressure.
Usage of caisson disease in English
1
Nick Ryan endured chest pains, broken limbs, bleeding sinuses, and caisson disease-thebends.
2
The chief danger of caisson work is the "bends," or " caisson disease."
3
Just a touch of caisson disease, I said.
4
The work was taken over by his son, Washington, who later was stricken with caisson disease & became partly paralyzed.
5
The caisson disease is popularly called "the bends" a kind of paralysis which is more or less baffling to medical science.
6
Caisson Disease; Divers' Paralysis.
7
"There is no need for me to say anything about caisson disease to you, gentlemen, or to you, Miss Taylor," began Kennedy.