Crossword clues for tracheostomy
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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
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: tracheotomy]
Usage examples of "tracheostomy".
A succession of loud, blowing noises full of gurgling came out the tracheostomy site as secretions from her lung pooled in her airway.
Though the tube was still in place, she no longer had to cover her tracheostomy site to speak.
This kind of acute traumatic mandibulectomy without reconstruction, before decannulation of the tracheostomy tube can lead to sleep apnea, the doctors said.
They also wanted to perform a tracheostomy, a hole cut through the neck into the windpipe, just below the larynx, to make it easier to ventilate her.
A nurse, grimly gathering the bloodstained utensils employed in the emergency tracheostomy, hunched over her tray like a waitress wearily approaching the end of a double shift.
They had all rehearsed in resuscitation procedures: mouth-to-mouth, sternum compression to get the heart pumping, electroshock paddles, endotracheal intubation, cricothyroidotomy, tracheostomy.
They had intravenous lines, and central venous pressure catheters, and tracheostomies, and positive pressure respirators, and suction and Seng stocking tubes, and all the rest.