The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hyperbaric \Hy`per*bar"ic\, a. [hyper- + baric.]
of, pertaining to, or using a pressure that is greater than normal atmospheric pressure; as, a hyperbaric chamber, where divers may decompress slowly to avoid the bends.
of, pertaining to, or using an oxygen pressure that is greater than that at normal atmospheric pressure; as, a hyperbaric tent to provide additional oxygen to patients with breathing difficulty.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. Of, relating to, or utilizing greater than normal pressure (as of oxygen).
WordNet
Usage examples of "hyperbaric".
Once you get topside again, you have to decompress for nearly sixty hours, which means that you have to spend two and half days in another hyperbaric chamber.
He was about to say something when the crewman who had opened the hyperbaric chamber stepped in front of her.
He pointed to the tall black man waiting by the manhole within the hyperbaric chamber.
And there has been some speculation that immersion in hyperbaric oxygen-that is, oxygen under high pressure-can raise the intelligence of infants.
For their counsel and corrections on matters cetological, ichthyological, chondrichthian, ornithological, hyperbaric and cryptomedical, I am in debt to Richard Ellis and Stanton Waterman.
With the atmosphere so heavy, his tissues would also become saturated with life-giving oxygen, and would remain so as long as the hyperbaric chamber pressure was maintained.
Four hours and no more, but four hours in which his own body mechanisms assured he would not bleed to death, and it was barely sixteen minutes between the time of the crash and the moment when Austin was placed on the surgical table in the hyperbaric chamber.
Steve Austin under hyperbaric conditions for at least three to five days.
He would remain there, in the hyperbaric chamber, until his tissues sealed off, and body stabilization was assured.
The two doors, tightly sealed, formed a pressure-airlock barrier to the chamber beyond, the hyperbaric world within which they had imprisoned Steve.
One dial showed the heavy pressure within the hyperbaric chamber, the other, the airlock in which he stood.
The emergency room staff at Highlands treated Bianca but they refused to admit her for hyperbaric oxygen treatment.
Now, there is a hospital in Seattle that has a hyperbaric oxygen chamber, which is basically used to decompress divers with the bends.
So people up there have learned that when an unconscious kid is pulled out of the back of a pickup truck, you send them straight to the one hospital with the hyperbaric chamber.
When Bianca arrived in the hyperbaric chamber she had been in a deep coma and totally unresponsive.