decooling
English
Etymology
de- + cooling = de- + cool + -ing; see decool § Etymology.
Verb
decooling
- present participle of decool
Noun
decooling (uncountable)
- (gerund, medicine) The process of gradually restoring normothermia after the hypothermic phase of targeted temperature management.
- 2009 July 1, “Methods of cooling: practical aspects of therapeutic temperature management.”, in Critical care medicine, volume 37, number 7 Suppl, DOI: , PMID 19535949, pages S211-S222:
- Design: A review of current literature describing methods of performing therapeutic temperature management and neuromonitoring during the cooling, maintenance, and decooling periods.
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Synonyms
- rewarming (not always trivially interchangeable, as with other instances of terminology established by convention idiomatically)