Pain resulting from rapid change in pressure.
1Nick Ryan endured chest pains, broken limbs, bleeding sinuses, and caisson disease-thebends.
2The chief danger of caisson work is the "bends," or " caisson disease."
3Just a touch of caisson disease, I said.
4The work was taken over by his son, Washington, who later was stricken with caisson disease & became partly paralyzed.
5The caisson disease is popularly called "the bends" a kind of paralysis which is more or less baffling to medical science.
6Caisson 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.
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