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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 Date: 1873 decompression sickness

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Caisson disease Cais"son dis*ease" (Med.) A disease frequently induced by remaining for some time in an atmosphere of high pressure, as in caissons, diving bells, etc. It is characterized by neuralgic pains and paralytic symptoms. It is variously explained, most probably as due to congestion of internal organs with subsequent stasis of the blood.