潜せん水すい病びょう

noun

decompression sickness; caisson disease; the bends

Medical condition caused by rapid decompression, typically in divers or caisson workers. The term 潜水病 is the common Japanese name.

• 潜せん水すい病びょうは、減げん圧あつ症しょうとも呼よばれる。

  Decompression sickness is also called 減圧症.

• 彼かれは潜せん水すい病びょうの治ち療りょうのために再さい圧あつ室しつに入はいった。

  He entered a recompression chamber for treatment of decompression sickness.