"Decompression" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the intra-cranial tension by purgation, leeches, bleeding, or lumbar puncture, or if life is threatened, by opening the skull over the seat of injury, or failing evidence of this, by a decompression ...
— Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities--Head--Neck. Sixth Edition. • Alexander Miles
... of this type of instrument that, in addition to the ordinary action due to the compression and decompression of the granular carbon between the electrodes, there exists another action due to the agitation of the granules as the chamber is caused to vibrate by the sound waves. In other words, in addition to the ordinary action, which may be termed the piston action between ...
— Cyclopedia of Telephony & Telegraphy Vol. 1 - A General Reference Work on Telephony, etc. etc. • Kempster Miller |
