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Decompression

noun

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

Relieving pressure (especially bringing a compressed person gradually back to atmospheric pressure). Synonym: decompressing.

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"Decompression" Quotes from Famous Books

... the intra-cranial tension by purgation, leeches, bleeding, or lumbar puncture, or if life is threatened, by opening the skull over the seat of injury, or failing evidence of this, by a decompression ...

— Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. • Alexander Miles

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