heimlich maneuver

1. 1.

   an emergency procedure to help someone who is choking because food is lodged in the trachea

   SynonymsHeimlich manoeuvere

   Broaderemergency procedure

Questions about heimlich maneuver

What does heimlich maneuver mean?

heimlich maneuver means "an emergency procedure to help someone who is choking because food is lodged in the trachea".

What is another word for heimlich maneuver?

Close synonyms include Heimlich manoeuvere. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is heimlich maneuver a common word?

heimlich maneuver is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.