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Definition: Tracheostomy |
TracheostomyNoun1. 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. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Tracheostomy" is a common misspelling or typo for: tracheotomy. |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | Surgical formation of an opening into the trachea through the neck, or the opening so created. (references) |
Medicine | Surgical creation of an opening into the trachea through the neck, for insertion of a tube to facilitate the passage of air to the lungs, or the evacuation of secretions. Source: European Union. (references) |
Public Administration | The operation(usually emergency)to make an opening into the trachea and insert a tube with the aim of freeing a respiratory obstruction or applying a ventilator; Also called tracheotomy. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonym: TracheostomySynonym: tracheotomy (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Tracheostomy |
| Specialty definitions using "tracheostomy": tracheostomy button, tracheostomy tube ♦ Ventilators, Negative-Pressure. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Dr. Oren is examining a child with respiratory paralysis. A suction machine is used in conjunction with a tracheostomy tube to help in suctioning sputum build-up from the lungs. Credit: CDC. |
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Health | Tracheostomy is used in persons with severe, life- threatening sleep apnea. (references) | |
To be effective, this may require a tube that passes from the nose or mouth to the windpipe (trachea) and for long-term use, an operation such as a tracheostomy, in which a plastic breathing tube is inserted directly in the patient's windpipe through an opening in the neck. Patients and their families should consider several factors when deciding whether and when to use one of these options. (references) | ||
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| "Tracheostomy" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Tracheostomy" is used about 14 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 14 | 93,893 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "tracheostomy": tracheostomy button ♦ tracheostomy tube. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "tracheostomy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | trakeostomi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | tracheotomie (tracheotomy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | trakeostomia, henkitorviavanteen teko. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | trachéotomie (tracheotomy), trachéostomie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Tracheotomie (tracheotomy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | τραχειοτομία (tracheotomy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | tracheotomia (tracheotomy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | acheostomytray traqueostomia. (various references) traqueotomía. (various references) trakeotomi (tracheotomy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-h-m-o-o-r-s-t-t-y" | |
-1 letter: tracheotomy. | |
-2 letters: athrocytes. | |
-3 letters: amorettos, astrocyte, athrocyte, chromates, corotates, stateroom, stomacher, theocrats, trachytes. | |
-4 letters: acrosome, amethyst, amoretto, chatters, chattery, chayotes, cheroots, chromate, comatose, cometary, corotate, costmary, cryostat, cytaster, hemostat, homestay, matchers, moochers, moschate, ratchets, resmooth, rheostat, smoother, smothery, stomachy, stretchy, sycamore, sycomore, tearooms, teraohms, theocrat, thoraces, tomatoes, tomatoey, trachyte, yachters. | |
-5 letters: cahoots, cattery, chaster, chatter. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-h-m-o-o-r-s-t-t-y" | |
+5 letters: thrombocytopenias. | |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01110010 01100001 01100011 01101000 01100101 01101111 01110011 01110100 01101111 01101101 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T r a c h e o s t o m y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0072 0061 0063 0068 0065 006F 0073 0074 006F 006D 0079 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)548467697471818586817991 |
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