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decooling

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English

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Etymology

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From de- +‎ cooling or de- +‎ cool +‎ -ing; see decool § Etymology.

Verb

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decooling

  1. present participle and gerund of decool

Noun

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decooling (uncountable)

  1. (gerund, medicine) The process of gradually restoring normothermia after the hypothermic phase of targeted temperature management.
    • 2009 July, DB Seder, TE Van der Kloot, “Methods of cooling: practical aspects of therapeutic temperature management.”, in Critical care medicine, volume 37, number 7 Suppl, →DOI, →PMID, page S211-S222:
      Design: A review of current literature describing methods of performing therapeutic temperature management and neuromonitoring during the cooling, maintenance, and decooling periods.

Synonyms

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  • rewarming (not always trivially interchangeable, as with other instances of terminology established by convention idiomatically)