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Definition of Decompression

1. Noun. Restoring compressed information to its normal form for use or display.

2. Noun. Relieving pressure (especially bringing a compressed person gradually back to atmospheric pressure).

Definition of Decompression

1. Noun. The process of decompressing. ¹

2. Noun. The restoration to atmospheric pressure of a person who has spent time under higher pressure (such as a diver) ¹

3. Noun. (medicine) The relief of pressure on a body part by surgery ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Decompression

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Medical Definition of Decompression

1. Decompression external to the body, most often the slow lessening of external pressure on the whole body (especially in caisson workers, deep sea divers, and persons who ascend to great heights) to prevent decompression sickness. It includes also sudden accidental decompression, but not surgical (local) decompression or decompression applied through body openings. (12 Dec 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Decompression

decomposites decomposition decomposition of movement decomposition potential decomposition reaction decompositional decompositions decompound decompound leaf decompoundable

decompounds decompress decompressed decompresses decompressing decompression decompression bomb decompression bombs decompression chamber decompression disease

decompression illness decompression operations decompression sickness decompressions decompressive decompressor decompressors decon deconcentrate deconcentrated

Literary usage of Decompression

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The U. S. Coal Industry, 1970-1990: Two Decades of Change (1992)
"If air is the only breathing medium available, the Surface Decompression Table ... There is no surface decompression table for use after an exceptional ..."

2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1919)
"THE operation of laminectomy for "spinal decompression" in cord lesions has a place in surgery comparable to that of cranial decompression in lesions of the ..."

3. Annual Report of the Commissioner of Labor by New York (State). Dept. of Labor (1915)
"... without passing through an intermediate lock or stage of decompression, which said decompression shall be, where the work is being done in tunnels, ..."

4. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1915)
"The Journal OF Nervous and Mental Disease An American Monthly Journal of Neurology and Psychiatry, Founded in Original articles SPINAL Decompression IN ..."

5. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1915)
"These results raise the question whether in selected cases, decompression will not only greatly shorten the period of invalidism but also very considerably ..."

6. Practice of Medicine by Frederick Tice (1922)
"No particular precautions are required in decompression from excess pressure not ... Two principal methods of decompression have been advocated: first, ..."

7. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1913)
"Decompression of the brain in our experimental work had absolutely no deterring influence upon the ill effects of intracranial tension in the serious cases. ..."

8. Respiration by John Scott Haldane (1922)
"The difficulty of safe decompression in the chamber is one that has often ... Hitherto the time given to decompression in the air lock has hardly ever been ..."

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