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noun
A technique used to reduce the risk of regurgitation by applying pressure to the cricoid cartilage at the neck, thus occluding the esophagus which passes directly behind it.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: emergency-medicine, medicine, sciences
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History
Described by British anesthesiologist Brian Arthur Sellick (1918–1996).
