| 释义 |
recompress, v.|riːkəmˈprɛs|
[re- 5 a.]
trans. To compress again; to increase again the pressure of air or other gas in (a vessel) or acting on (a person); esp. to subject (an aircraft pilot, diver, etc.) to increased pressure again.
1945Jrnl. Gen. Physiol. XXVIII. 220 The frogs..were recompressed within 30 seconds. 1950Ibid. III. 255 The chamber was recompressed at free-fall rate. 1951A. R. Behnke in J. F. Fulton et al. Decompression Sickness iii. 87 Should symptoms recur.., recompress the diver to a depth giving relief. 1967P. D. Griffiths in R. I. McCallum Decompression of Compressed Air Workers 230 The patient must be observed constantly and recompressed at once should symptoms return, preferably to the minimum effective pressure. 1969Haxton & Whyte in Bennett & Elliott Physiol. & Med. of Diving i. 12 It is sometimes necessary to recompress a patient to a pressure slightly higher than that at which he has been working. |