nounplural noun tracheotomies

• An incision in the windpipe made to relieve an obstruction to breathing.

  ‘I had to do an emergency tracheotomy before we got to hospital’

  More example sentences

  • ‘tracheotomy is recommended’
  • ‘Longer-term help with breathing may require a tracheotomy.’
  • ‘Seventeen of the patients had a tracheostomy for airway obstruction.’
  • ‘In some cases, such as when the swollen epiglottis blocks the windpipe, a tracheostomy may be performed.’
  • ‘In severe problem patients a tracheotomy or surgical opening (temporary or permanent) above the Adams apple is needed.’
  • ‘All tracheotomies were operative tracheotomies, and no percutaneous dilatational tracheostomies were performed.’