0 past simple and past participle of decompress
1 to reduce in pressure or return to the original lower pressure, or to cause something to do this:
The left atrium was decompressed adequately and the patient was successfully weaned from extracorporeal support.
In die second stage, die right ventricle was decompressed as an open procedure on cardiopulmonary bypass, leaving open die shunt and the interatrial communication.
If the atresia is in the upper small bowel and the proximal bowel can be adequately decompressed with a nasogastric tube, the bowel can be reduced into the peritoneal cavity.
Saying that the information is represented by hippocampus in compressed form does not help, because then one needs to explain how it gets decompressed in the cortex.
The information is decoded and decompressed before being passed along to the cinema sound processor.
Blocks are divided into segments that must be decompressed sequentially in order.
If nerve conduction studies show a large (90%) change in nerve conduction, the nerve should be decompressed.
The foundation required extensive excavation because layers of decompressed rock existed above the sound granodiorite rock.
