heimlich maneuver

Questions about heimlich maneuver

What is another word for heimlich maneuver?

It depends which heimlich maneuver you mean. In the sense “an emergency procedure to help someone who is choking because food is lodged in the trachea”, the synonyms are Heimlich manoeuvere. Across all 1 sense there are 1 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of heimlich maneuver?

WordNet records no antonym for heimlich maneuver. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for heimlich maneuver come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of heimlich maneuver

• Full entry for heimlich maneuverAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for heimlich maneuverWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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