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/tɹɐkɪˈɒtəmi/
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NOUN
- 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
How To Use tracheotomy In A Sentence
- -- Stabbing of the cricothyroid membrane, or an attempted stabbing of the trachea, so long taught as an emergency tracheotomy, is a mistake. Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery
- Over time, the tracheotomy has gone by several different names, among them pharyngotomy, laryngotomy, bronchotomy, tracheostomy, and tracheotomy.
- Longer-term help with breathing may require a tracheotomy.
- A single lesion involving a tracheotomy stoma was treated with the direct application of the probe without using the bronchoscope.
- ConclusionAfter brain injury, the use of oxygen inhalation, nasal feeding, suction, tracheal intubation, tracheotomy, breathing machine were the main risky factors to cause lung infection.
- He is still hospitalized, recovering from a tracheotomy and relapse of the flu.
- Liston, Mr., on ligature of subclavian, 36, 37. on rhinoplastic operations, 177. on excision of upper jaw, 186. tracheotomy, 213. on femoral hernia, 240. on lithotomy, 262. A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners
- If, however, as in cases of arachidic bronchitis, large amounts of purulent secretion must be expelled, it will be found in certain cases that the decreased glottic lumen and impaired laryngeal motility will render tracheotomy necessary to drain the lungs and prevent drowning in the retained secretions. Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery
- If, however, as in cases of arachidic bronchitis, large amounts of purulent secretion must be expelled, it will be found in certain cases that the decreased glottic lumen and impaired laryngeal motility will render tracheotomy necessary to drain the lungs and prevent drowning in the retained secretions. Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery
- BRONCHOTOMY (Gr. [Greek: bronchos], wind-pipe, and [Greek: temnein], to cut), a medical term used to describe a surgical incision into the throat; now largely superseded by the terms laryngotomy, thyrotomy and tracheotomy, which indicate more accurately the place of incision. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"