tracheotomy

Noun

Meaning

The operation of making an opening into the windpipe.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

tracheostomy operation surgery intubation trachea windpipe laryngotomy laryngotracheotomy trach bronchi surgical operation cricothyrotomy tracheostoma crike laryngeal surgery
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Hypernyms

operation surgery surgical procedure surgical operation surgical process

Examples

During Wilkins heavily sedated stay in the ICU, he had dialysis, a secondary infection and a tracheotomy, Patterson added. Source: Internet

Unlike the rest of us learning to work from home with children underfoot, it’s nigh on impossible to ventilate a patient or perform a tracheotomy with a two-year-old pulling at your personal protective equipment. Source: Internet

Hannah Mehta, executive director of Protect TX Fragile Kids, said at Monday’s news conference she has spoken to surgeons who say Tinslee’s case is not hopeless and that there are viable treatment options for the girl, beginning with a tracheotomy. Source: Internet

Since then he has undergone tracheotomy surgery to help him breathe. Source: Internet

Nevertheless, Isabel has been through several crises in her short life, and the most recent, this past November, left her with a tracheotomy, an opening through her throat that helps her to breathe. Source: Internet

Other pictures show smoke coming from a tracheotomy hole and a dead body with autopsy stitches on his chest. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

tracheotomise tracheotomist tracheotomize trachichthyid trachichthyiform trachinid