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noun
An incision made through the skin and cricothyroid membrane to establish a patent airway during certain life-threatening situations, such as airway obstruction by a foreign body, angioedema, or massive facial trauma.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: medicine, sciences, surgery
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