bends definitions

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: pain resulting from rapid change in pressure [syn: decompression sickness, aeroembolism, air embolism, gas embolism, caisson disease, bends]

Merriam Webster's

noun see decompression sickness

Moby Thesaurus

Minamata disease, altitude sickness, anoxemia, anoxia, anoxic anoxia, anthrax, asteroids, aurora particles, black lung, blackout, caisson disease, chilblain, cosmic particles, cosmic ray bombardment, decompression sickness, frostbite, immersion foot, intergalactic matter, itai, jet lag, lead poisoning, mercury poisoning, meteor dust impacts, meteors, motion sickness, pneumoconiosis, radiation, radiation sickness, radionecrosis, red-out, space bullets, sunstroke, the bends, trench foot, weightlessness