heimlich manoeuvere

1. 1.

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

   SynonymsHeimlich maneuver

   Broaderemergency procedure

Questions about heimlich manoeuvere

What does heimlich manoeuvere mean?

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

What is another word for heimlich manoeuvere?

Close synonyms include Heimlich maneuver. 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 manoeuvere a common word?

heimlich manoeuvere 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.