Surg. Also erron. trachotomy. [f. TRACHEO- + -TOMY.] Incision of the trachea or windpipe.

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1726.  Quincy, Lex, Phys.-Med., Trachotomy, the same as Bronchotomy.

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1805.  Med. Jrnl., XIV. 151. Bronchotomy, or (speaking more correctly) tracheotomy, was now thought of.

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1878.  T. Bryant, Pract. Surg., I. 75. Tracheotomy is one of these means, and deserves trial.

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  b.  attrib., tracheotomy instrument, etc.; tracheotomy tube, a tube inserted into the opening made by tracheotomy, to facilitate breathing.

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1880.  M. Mackenzie, Dis. Throat & Nose, I. 514, note. I returned home for my *tracheotomy instruments.

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1884.  Health Exhib. Catal., 104/1. Bronchitis or *Tracheotomy Kettle.

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1897.  Allbutt’s Syst. Med., IV. 822. The intubation tube is more comfortably worn than the *tracheotomy tube.

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  Hence Tracheotome, a surgical instrument for performing tracheotomy; Tracheotomist, one who performs tracheotomy; Tracheotomize v., trans. to perform tracheotomy upon.

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1857.  Dunglison, *Tracheotome, an instrument of the trocar kind, for opening the trachea.

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1890.  in Billings, Med. Dict.

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1891.  Cent. Dict., *Tracheotomist.

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1885.  Science, 27 Feb., 173/2. He [Leo] worked with rabbits, which were *tracheotomized and supplied with pure oxygen.

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