sickness vs caisson disease

caisson disease vs sickness

sickness and caisson disease both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
sickness	Yes	No	No	No
caisson disease	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, caisson disease is a hyponym of sickness; that is, caisson disease is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than sickness:

sickness: impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism
caisson disease: pain resulting from rapid change in pressure

Other hyponyms of sickness include condition, ague, amyloidosis, anuresis, anuria, catastrophic illness, collapse, prostration, aeroembolism, air embolism, bends, decompression sickness, gas embolism, food poisoning, gastrointestinal disorder, lead poisoning, plumbism, saturnism, disease, hypermotility, indisposition, ozone sickness, toxaemia, toxaemia of pregnancy, toxemia, toxemia of pregnancy, growth.

sickness (noun)	caisson disease (noun)
impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism	pain resulting from rapid change in pressure
the state that precedes vomiting
defectiveness or unsoundness

Difference between sickness and caisson disease

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