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Definition of Decompressions
1. decompression [n] - See also: decompression
Lexicographical Neighbors of Decompressions
Literary usage of Decompressions
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Shield and Compressed Air Tunneling by Bertram Henry Majendie Hewett, Sigvald Johannesson (1922)
"A certain piece of work might show twice as many cases as another and yet be much
more free from illness when the total number of decompressions that were ..."
2. Diagnosis and treatment of brain injuries with and without a fracture of the by William Sharpe (1920)
"The cranial decompressions of choice are the subtemporal decompressions for
supratentorial lesions and the suboccipital decompressions for infratentorial ..."
3. Diseases of occupation and vocational hygiene by George Martin Kober, William Clinton Hanson (1916)
"... decompressions by the modified stage method, there was an unusually large
percentage of minor cases; for, reporting on 8510 of these decompressions, ..."
4. 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 (1914)
"Dr. Allen Starr said he had been very much discontented with the ordinary results
of temporal decompressions in cases of brain tumor. ..."
5. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1919)
"That laminectomy for spinal decompressions or for exploration is of equal if not
greater value is not yet generally appreciated. ..."
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