1. Word finder
  2. Word definitions
  3. tracheotomy

Find the word definition

What is "tracheotomy"

Crossword clues for tracheotomy

tracheotomy
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
tracheotomy
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 swelled up until she needed a tracheotomy.
▪ I knew only too well that tracheotomy was indicated here but I didn't have a tube with me.
▪ It was also feared an emergency tracheotomy could have ruined his distinctive voice for good.
▪ She was rushed to Northampton General Hospital where she underwent several hours of surgery, including a tracheotomy operation.
▪ They had to perform a tracheotomy throat operation to aid his breathing.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tracheotomy

Tracheotomy \Tra`che*ot"o*my\, n. [Trachea + Gr. ? to cut: cf.F. tracheotomie.] (Surg.) The operation of making an opening into the windpipe.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
tracheotomy

1726, Modern Latin, coined 1718 by German surgeon Lorenz Heister (1683-1758); see trachea + -tomy.

Wiktionary
tracheotomy

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
tracheotomy

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]

Wikipedia
Tracheotomy

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 as an airway or as a site for a tracheostomy tube to be inserted; this tube allows a person to breathe without the use of his or her nose or mouth. Both surgical and percutaneous techniques are widely used in current surgical practice. It is among the oldest described procedures.

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.