decooling

de- +‎ cooling = de- +‎ cool +‎ -ing; see decool § Etymology.

decooling

1. present participle and gerund of decool

decooling (uncountable)

1. (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.

• rewarming (not always trivially interchangeable, as with other instances of terminology established by convention idiomatically)