tracheostomy

1. 1.

   a surgical operation that creates an opening into the trachea with a tube inserted to provide a passage for air; performed when the pharynx is obstructed by edema or cancer or other causes

   Synonymstracheotomy

   Broaderoperation

   Partsstoma

Other forms of tracheostomy

plural

tracheostomies·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about tracheostomy

What does tracheostomy mean?

tracheostomy means "a surgical operation that creates an opening into the trachea with a tube inserted to provide a passage for air; performed when the pharynx is obstructed by edema or cancer or other causes".

How many syllables are in tracheostomy?

tracheostomy has 5 syllables: tra-che-o-sto-my. The stress falls on "o".

What is another word for tracheostomy?

Close synonyms include tracheotomy. 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 tracheostomy a common word?

tracheostomy 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.