choke

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The diagnosis is complete if, upon passing the probang (a flexible tube made for this purpose), an obstruction is encountered Treatment._--If the choke is at the beginning of the gullet (pharyngeal) an effort must be made to remove the obstacle through the mouth.

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  1. transitive verb To interfere with the respiration of by compression or obstruction of the larynx or trachea.
  2. transitive verb To check or slow down the movement, growth, or action of: a garden that was choked by weeds.
  3. transitive verb To block up or obstruct by filling or clogging: Mud choked the drainpipe.
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  • You cannot submit more than 4000 characters as a message. problems if the butterflys on the carbs are bearly open, you must be getting a petrol feed from somewhere else if the choke is a seperate feed check that it shuts off at the carbs, failing that check your jets and needle heights, check if your wheels are vertical, then check each fork leg for re bound with the wheel off bandit 400 problems
  • Haven't seen anyone call Kenny Perry's struggles on 17 and 18 as a choke, and that's a good thing, because it didn't seem like one. —  The Big Lead
  • If the leaves appear too "open" then the choke is past its prime. —  Diabetes Daily
  • By the way, the leaves closest to the heart of the choke are very tender and depending on the size and age of the choke, you can frequently eat the whole cluster of leaves. —  Diabetes Daily
  • The rest of the base of the choke is edible, referred to as the heart. —  Diabetes Daily
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bert ·  cough ·  raspy ·  wheeze ·  gasp ·  commonmode ·  gulp ·  chuckle ·  croak ·  convulsive ·  gurgle ·  rasp

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choke:   choked ·  choking
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Etymologies (4)

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  1. Middle English choken, short for achoken, from Old English āceōcian : ā-, intensive pref. + cēoce, cēace, jaw, cheek.

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  1. Also until recently spelled choak; dial, chock (see chock); from Middle English choken, cheken, choke, from Anglo-Saxon *ceocian (in comp. ā-ceocian: see achoke) = Icelandic koka, gulp (cf. kok, the gullet, especially of birds: see chokes); prob. orig. imitative of the guttural or gurgling sounds uttered by one who is choking, and so akin to chuck, chuckle, cackle, cough, kink, all ult. imitative words containing a repeated guttural: see these words.
  2. from choke, v.
  3. The last syllable of artichoke.
 

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