reinflation

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Etymology[edit]

re- +‎ inflation

Noun[edit]

reinflation (countable and uncountable, plural reinflations)

  1. inflation again
    • 2015 August 12, Bassam M. Shoman et al., ““High Frequency/Small Tidal Volume Differential Lung Ventilation”: A Technique of Ventilating the Nondependent Lung of One Lung Ventilation for Robotically Assisted Thoracic Surgery”, in Case Reports in Anesthesiology[1], volume 2015, →DOI:
      Intermittent reinflation of the collapsed lung by manual ventilation was done to overcome the desaturation problem with marked improvement of SpO 2 to 100% immediately.

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