tracheotomy
IPA: trˈeɪkiˈɔtʌmi
noun
- (surgery) 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.
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Examples of "tracheotomy" in Sentences
- A tracheotomy is a procedure performed in that situation.
- But even in experienced hands, a tracheotomy could be a tricky procedure.
- A surgical procedure known as a tracheotomy was performed Saturday morning.
- BACKGROUND: A tracheotomy is a surgical procedure in which a cut or opening is made in the windpipe.
- Once again he brought up the subject of the doctors at the hospital performing this procedure called a tracheotomy on my throat.
- WOODRUFF: Sanjay, if I'm hearing you correctly, I'm hearing you using both the term tracheotomy and tracheostomy, which is it, or is it both?
- Last week, he had a tracheotomy, which is not the usual treatment for thyroid cancer; it's only done when something has gone wrong and the patient is having trouble breathing.
- The tracheotomy was the result of a bout with pneumonia that left her gasping for air and it returned her to the big, bountiful, hungry life that was one of her greatest roles.
- What he's suggesting is something called a tracheotomy, which is where you take a tube and put it -- insert into the neck and put into the baby's lungs to help make breathing easier.
- Our only resource in this form of the disease used to be by mechanical or surgical means, opening the windpipe below the level of the obstruction and inserting a curved silver tube -- the so-called tracheotomy operation; or later, and less heroic, by pushing forcibly down into the larynx, and through and past the obstruction at the vocal cords, a small metal tube through which the child could manage to breathe.
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