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n. The act or process of decompressing.

n. A surgical procedure used to relieve pressure on an organ or part, such as the abdomen, cranium, or spinal cord.

n. The process of decompressing.

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

n. The relief of pressure on a body part by surgery

n. the process of experiencing decompression; the act or process of relieving or reducing pressure.

n. the reduction of atmospheric pressure experienced by divers rising from deep water to the surface, thus reducing the concentration of dissolved atmospheric gases in the blood; -- especially applied to a gradual reduction of such pressure.

n. the process, analogous to sense 2, undergone by divers in a decompression chamber, in which an artificially high atmospheric pressure is gradually lowered to normal pressure.

n. a return to a normal, more relaxed state after a period of intense stress, psychological pressure, or urgent activity; -- of people.

n. the process of converting digitally encoded data from a more compact (compressed) form to its original, larger size.

n. Relief from pressure; specifically, relief from excessive atmospheric or hydrostatic pressure.

n. restoring compressed information to its normal form for use or display

n. relieving pressure (especially bringing a compressed person gradually back to atmospheric pressure)

""I'd prefer to stay away from the word 'decompression' in some places because one possible defense is that this word in the statute is ambiguous as applied to what happened to the sheep," wrote Tony Lucchesi, one of the university's attorneys in an Aug. 5 email to a U.S. Navy official."

decoding    decipherment    decryption    easing    alleviation   

decompression stop    decompression illness    decompression schedule    decompression sickness    decompression party   

decompressing   

Hessian    accession    aggression    compression    concession   

intubation    red-alert    polypeptide    electro-dynamics    thrombi