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