Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun decompression_sickness

1 sense of decompression sickness

Sense 1
decompression sickness, aeroembolism, air embolism, gas embolism, caisson disease, bends -- (pain resulting from rapid change in pressure)
       => illness, unwellness, malady, sickness -- (impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism)