tracheotomy Surg.
(treɪkiːˈɒtəmɪ)
Also erron. traˈchotomy.
[f. tracheo- + -tomy.]
= tracheostomy.
| 1726 Quincy Lex. Phys.-Med., Trachotomy, the same as Bronchotomy. 1805 Med. Jrnl. XIV. 151 Bronchotomy, or (speaking more correctly) tracheotomy, was now thought of. 1878 T. Bryant Pract. Surg. I. 75 Tracheotomy is one of these means, and deserves trial. |
b. attrib.,
tracheotomy instrument, etc.;
tracheotomy tube = tracheostomy tube.
| 1880 M. Mackenzie Dis. Throat & Nose I. 514 note, I returned home for my *tracheotomy instruments. |
| 1884 Health Exhib. Catal. 104/1 Bronchitis or *Tracheotomy Kettle. |
| 1897 Allbutt's Syst. Med. IV. 822 The intubation tube is more comfortably worn than the *tracheotomy tube. |
Hence
tracheotome (
ˈtreɪkiːəʊtəʊm), a surgical instrument for performing tracheotomy;
tracheˈotomist, one who performs tracheotomy;
tracheˈotomize v., trans. to perform tracheotomy upon.
| 1857 Dunglison, *Tracheotome, an instrument of the trocar kind, for opening the trachea. 1890 in Billings Med. Dict. |
| 1891 Cent. Dict., *Tracheotomist. |
| 1885 Science 27 Feb. 173/2 He [Leo] worked with rabbits, which were *tracheotomized and supplied with pure oxygen. |