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English
Etymology
From de- + obstruction.
Noun
deobstruction (uncountable)
- (now chiefly medicine) The act of deobstructing (clearing a passage, etc. of obstructions).
1662, William Dugdale, chapter 22, in The History of Imbanking and Drayning of Divers Fenns and Marshes, London, pages 116–117:[…] in case, that they who had thus diverted and obstructed these Water-courses, were not able to repair them again; then to distrain all such to give assistance therein, as by such reducing them to their former Chanels, and deobstruction of those stops, should receive benefit and safeguard.
- 1861, James Yearsley, On Throat Deafness and the Pathological Connexions of the Throat, Nose, and Ear, London: John Churchill, 9th edition, Cases, p. 81,
- The proper treatment of such a case was immediately apparent; namely, the deobstruction of the nasal and Eustachian passages.
- Synonym: unblocking