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A surgical operation that creates an opening into the trachea with a tube inserted to provide a passage for air
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tracheotomy
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Tracheotomy is a surgical procedure which consists of making an incision on the anterior aspect of the neck and opening a direct airway through an incision in the trachea (windpipe). The resulting stoma (hole), or tracheostomy , can serve independently ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context surgery English) A surgical procedure in which an incision is made into the trachea, through the neck, and a tube inserted so as to make an artificial opening in order to assist breathing.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a surgical operation that creates an opening into the trachea with a tube inserted to provide a passage for air; performed when the pharynx is obstructed by edema or cancer or other causes [syn: tracheostomy ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ But a tracheotomy throat operation which helped to save his life may have changed his distinctive voice for ever. ▪ He battled through the night, spared by a tracheotomy . ▪ He did a tracheotomy in the ambulance. ▪ Her throat ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1726, Modern Latin, coined 1718 by German surgeon Lorenz Heister (1683-1758); see trachea + -tomy .
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tracheotomy \Tra`che*ot"o*my\, n. [Trachea + Gr. ? to cut: cf.F. tracheotomie.] (Surg.) The operation of making an opening into the windpipe.
Usage examples of tracheotomy.
The glottis may be inflamed, and if there is danger of asphyxia, tracheotomy may have to be performed.
The right arm healed, but the left showed erysipelatous inflammation, culminating in edema, which affected the glottis to such an extent that tracheotomy was performed to save her life.
Tracheotomy was performed but the dyspnea continued, showing that the foreign body was lodged below the incision.
In the presence of Sir Morrell Mackenzie, Johnston of Baltimore removed a toy locomotive from the subglottic cavity by tracheotomy and thyreotomy.
She made sure that the suction machine was in position with plenty of Toronto catheters and that there was a tracheotomy mask handy in case she should need one, together with dilators, a spare tube and scissors.
Then new treatments became available, and the necessity of administering emergency tracheotomies evaporated.