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Word Meanings - LARYNGOTRACHEOTOMY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The operation of cutting into the larynx and the upper part of the trachea, -- a frequent operation for obstruction to breathing.

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  • BREATHE
    Etym: 1. To respire; to inhale and exhale air; hence;, to live. "I am in health, I breathe." Shak. Breathes there a man with soul so dead Sir W. Scott. 2. To take breath; to rest from action. Well! breathe awhile, and then to it again! Shak. 3.
  • FREQUENTATIVE
    Serving to express the frequent repetition of an action; as, a frequentative verb. -- n.
  • TRACHEA
    The windpipe. See Illust. of Lung.
  • CUTTHROAT
    One who cuts throats; a murderer; an assassin.
  • UPPERMOST
    Highest in place, position, rank, power, or the like; upmost; supreme. Whatever faction happens to be uppermost. Swift.
  • BREATHLESS
    1. Spent with labor or violent action; out of breath. 2. Not breathing; holding the breath, on account of fear, expectation, or intense interest; attended with a holding of the breath; as, breathless attention. But breathless, as we grow
  • UPPERTENDOM
    The highest class in society; the upper ten. See Upper ten, under Upper.
  • OBSTRUCTIONIST
    One who hinders progress; one who obstructs business, as in a legislative body. -- a.
  • CUTTY
    Short; as, a cutty knife; a cutty sark.
  • TRACHEARY
    Tracheal; breathing by means of tracheƦ. -- n.
  • FREQUENTNESS
    The quality of being frequent.
  • FREQUENTATION
    The act or habit of frequenting or visiting often; resort. Chesterfield.
  • BREATHABLE
    Such as can be breathed.
  • TRACHEATE
    Breathing by means of tracheƦ; of or pertaining to the Tracheata.
  • CUTTING
    1. The act or process of making an incision, or of severing, felling, shaping, etc. 2. Something cut, cut off, or cut out, as a twig or
  • CUTTYSTOOL
    1. A low stool 2. A seat in old Scottish churches, where offenders were made to sit, for public rebuke by the minister.
  • FREQUENTABLE
    Accessible. Sidney.
  • OPERATION
    Something to be done; some transformation to be made upon quantities, the transformation being indicated either by rules or symbols. (more info) 1. The act or process of operating; agency; the exertion of power, physical, mechanical, or moral.
  • BREATHER
    1. One who breathes. Hence: One who lives. One who utters. One who animates or inspires. 2. That which puts one out of breath, as violent exercise.
  • BREATHING
    1. Respiration; the act of inhaling and exhaling air. Subject to a difficulty of breathing. Melmoth. 2. Air in gentle motion. 3. Any gentle influence or operation; inspiration; as, the breathings of the Spirit. 4. Aspiration; secret prayer.
  • OVERFREQUENT
    Too frequent.
  • STRAW-CUTTER
    An instrument to cut straw for fodder.
  • IMPROPERATION
    The act of upbraiding or taunting; a reproach; a taunt. Improperatios and terms of scurrility. Sir T. Browne
  • SWARD-CUTTER
    A plow for turning up grass land. A lawn mower.
  • SCUTTLE
    both fr. L. scutella, dim. of scutra, scuta, a dish or platter; cf. 1. A broad, shallow basket. 2. A wide-mouthed vessel for holding coal: a coal hod.
  • UPBREATHE
    To breathe up or out; to exhale. Marston.
  • CHALKCUTTER
    A man who digs chalk.
  • SUPPER
    A meal taken at the close of the day; the evening meal. Note: Supper is much used in an obvious sense, either adjectively or as the first part of a compound; as, supper time or supper-time, supper bell, supper hour, etc. (more info) originally

 

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