Usually means: Decompression sickness from rapid ascent.
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General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. bends, the bends: Merriam-Webster
  2. the bends, the bends: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bends, the bends: Collins English Dictionary
  4. bends: Vocabulary.com
  5. Bend's, Bends, bends: Wordnik
  6. bends, the bends: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. bends, the bends: Wiktionary
  8. bends: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. bends, the bends: Dictionary.com
  10. bends: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  11. Bends (film), Bends, The Bends (album), The Bends (song), The Bends, The bends (album), The bends: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. bends: Rhymezone
  13. bends, the bends: FreeDictionary.org
  14. bends: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. The Bends, bends: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Abbreviations in shipping (No longer online)
  2. bends: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Bends, bends: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. bends: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Bends (decompression sickness): Merck Manuals
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. The bends (album), bends, the bends: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. BENDS: Acronym Finder
  2. bends: Idioms

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Bends: Sports Definitions

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Definitions from Wiktionary (bends)

noun:  (nautical) The thickest and strongest planks in a wooden ship's side, wales.
noun:  (underwater diving, pathology, usually with the) Synonym of decompression sickness.

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