"tracheotomy" meaning in English

See tracheotomy in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: tracheotomies [plural], tracheostomy [alternative]
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  1. (surgery) A surgical procedure in which an incision is made into the trachea, through the neck, and a tube inserted so as to make an artificial opening in order to assist breathing. Derived forms: laryngotracheotomy, tracheotomise, tracheotomist, tracheotomize Translations (surgery to insert a tube into the neck): traqueotomia [feminine] (Catalan), trachéotomie [feminine] (French), Luftröhrenschnitt [masculine] (German), tracheotomia (Italian), трахеотоми́я (traxeotomíja) [feminine] (Russian), traqueotomía (Spanish)

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      "glosses": [
        "A surgical procedure in which an incision is made into the trachea, through the neck, and a tube inserted so as to make an artificial opening in order to assist breathing."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "surgery",
          "surgery"
        ],
        [
          "surgical",
          "surgical"
        ],
        [
          "procedure",
          "procedure"
        ],
        [
          "incision",
          "incision"
        ],
        [
          "trachea",
          "trachea"
        ],
        [
          "neck",
          "neck"
        ],
        [
          "tube",
          "tube"
        ],
        [
          "insert",
          "insert"
        ],
        [
          "artificial",
          "artificial"
        ],
        [
          "opening",
          "opening"
        ],
        [
          "assist",
          "assist"
        ],
        [
          "breathing",
          "breathing"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(surgery) A surgical procedure in which an incision is made into the trachea, through the neck, and a tube inserted so as to make an artificial opening in order to assist breathing."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "medicine",
        "sciences",
        "surgery"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "lang_code": "ca",
      "sense": "surgery to insert a tube into the neck",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "traqueotomia"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "lang_code": "fr",
      "sense": "surgery to insert a tube into the neck",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "trachéotomie"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "surgery to insert a tube into the neck",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Luftröhrenschnitt"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "lang_code": "it",
      "sense": "surgery to insert a tube into the neck",
      "word": "tracheotomia"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "lang_code": "ru",
      "roman": "traxeotomíja",
      "sense": "surgery to insert a tube into the neck",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "трахеотоми́я"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "lang_code": "es",
      "sense": "surgery to insert a tube into the neck",
      "word": "traqueotomía"
    }
  ],
  "word": "tracheotomy"
}

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