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🗜️ To compress again 🏥 To increase pressure
to recompress

to recompress

8.0
Put a diver back under high air pressure in a chamber to treat sickness after surfacing too quickly
  • verb
  • /ˌriːkəmˈprɛs/
  • Specialized
translation icon : recomprimir
  • The doctor decided to recompress the diver in the hyperbaric chamber to treat his decompression sickness.

Examples

  • In cases of severe decompression sickness, doctors recommend that patients be recompressed immediately in a controlled environment.

  • After the patient was safely brought to the surface, the team prepared to recompress him to avoid further complications.

  • "In a hyperbaric chamber getting recompressed.

    Fiction book (2002)

Synonyms

to pressurize
vsto recompress
  • Specialized
30 5.2

To increase or keep air pressure inside a closed space using a machine

is a repeated medical pressure increase for people or animals to treat decompression sickness

Surface Forms

recompress infinitive
recompressed past
recompressed past participle
recompressing present participle
recompresses third person singular

Morphology

recompress = compress (semi-transparent) = re + compress

The structure clearly means 'compress again', but the hyperbaric-treatment sense is a specialized medical application of that idea.

Etymology

Recompress combines re- ('again') and compress ('press together'), the same root as pressure and press. So to recompress a person or animal is to put more 'pressure' on them again, as happens in a pressure chamber to treat the bends.