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Word Meanings - LARYNGOTOMY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The operation of cutting into the larynx, from the outside of the neck, for assisting respiration when obstructed, or for removing foreign bodies.

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  • ASSISTANTLY
    In a manner to give aid.
  • ASSISTANCE
    1. The act of assisting; help; aid; furtherance; succor; support. Without the assistance of a mortal hand. Shak. 2. An assistant or helper; a body of helpers. Wat Tyler killed by valiant Walworth, the lord mayor of London, and his assistance,
  • ASSIST
    To give support to in some undertaking or effort, or in time of distress; to help; to aid; to succor. Assist me, knight. I am undone! Shak. Syn. -- To help; aid; second; back; support; relieve; succor; befriend; sustain; favor. See Help.
  • CUTTHROAT
    One who cuts throats; a murderer; an assassin.
  • ASSISTER
    An assistant; a helper.
  • OUTSIDER
    1. One not belonging to the concern, institution, party, etc., spoken of; one disconnected in interest or feeling. A. Trollope. 2. A locksmith's pinchers for grasping the point of a key in the keyhole, to open a door from the outside when the
  • OBSTRUCTIVE
    Tending to obstruct; presenting obstacles; hindering; causing impediment. -- Ob*struct"ive*ly, adv.
  • FOREIGNER
    A person belonging to or owning allegiance to a foreign country; one not native in the country or jurisdiction under consideration, or not naturalized there; an alien; a stranger. Joy is such a foreigner, So mere a stranger to my thoughts. Denham.
  • FOREIGNNESS
    The quality of being foreign; remoteness; want of relation or appropriateness. Let not the foreignness of the subject hinder you from endeavoring to set me right. Locke. A foreignness of complexion. G. Eliot.
  • OBSTRUCTIONIST
    One who hinders progress; one who obstructs business, as in a legislative body. -- a.
  • CUTTY
    Short; as, a cutty knife; a cutty sark.
  • OBSTRUCTER
    One who obstructs or hinders.
  • ASSISTLESS
    Without aid or help. Pope.
  • OBSTRUCT
    before or against, to obstruct; ob + struere to pile up. 1. To block up; to stop up or close, as a way or passage; to place an obstacle in, or fill with obstacles or impediments that prevent or hinder passing; as, to obstruct a street;
  • ASSISTOR
    A assister.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • REMOVER
    One who removes; as, a remover of landmarks. Bacon.
  • REMOVED
    1. Changed in place. 2. Dismissed from office. 3. Distant in location; remote. "Something finer than you could purchase in so removed a dwelling." Shak. 4. Distant by degrees in relationship; as, a cousin once removed. -- Re*mov"ed*ness (r, n.
  • STRAW-CUTTER
    An instrument to cut straw for fodder.
  • IRREMOVABLE
    Not removable; immovable; inflexible. Shak. -- Ir`re*mov"a*bly, adv.
  • 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.
  • CHALKCUTTER
    A man who digs chalk.

 

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