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Meaning of caisson disease | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

The painful condition in which bubbles of nitrogen form in body tissues after a person makes too-rapid a transition from high atmospheric pressure to lower atmospheric pressure.

uncountable

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

See also

Caister Caister-on-Sea Caistor St Edmund Cait Caithness Caitican

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