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English
Etymology
From de- + cooling or de- + cool + -ing; see decool § Etymology.
Verb
decooling
- present participle and gerund of decool
Noun
decooling (uncountable)
- (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
- rewarming (not always trivially interchangeable, as with other instances of terminology established by convention idiomatically)