sickness vs gas embolism

gas embolism vs sickness

sickness and gas embolism both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
sickness	Yes	No	No	No
gas embolism	Yes	No	No	No

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

sickness: impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism
gas embolism: 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, caisson disease, decompression sickness, food poisoning, gastrointestinal disorder, lead poisoning, plumbism, saturnism, disease, hypermotility, indisposition, ozone sickness, toxaemia, toxaemia of pregnancy, toxemia, toxemia of pregnancy, growth.

sickness (noun)	gas embolism (noun)
impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism	obstruction of the circulatory system caused by an air bubble as, e.g., accidentally during surgery or hypodermic injection or as a complication from scuba diving
the state that precedes vomiting	pain resulting from rapid change in pressure
defectiveness or unsoundness

Difference between sickness and gas embolism

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