deobstructionとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

deobstruction (uncountable)

1. (now chiefly medicine) The act of deobstructing (clearing a passage, etc. of obstructions).
   • 1662, William Dugdale, The History of Imbanking and Drayning of Divers Fenns and Marshes, London, Chapter 22, pp. 116-117,^[1]

     […] 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,^[2]

     The proper treatment of such a case was immediately apparent; namely, the deobstruction of the nasal and Eustachian passages.

   Synonym: unblocking