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  • As the description of the set suggests, not every photo is of a scientist, there's also test pilot Jacqueline Cochran, nurse Josephine Fountain (inventor of the "Direct Suction Tracheotomy Tube"), and science journalist Marjorie MacDill Breit, among many others.

    Depictions of 20th Century Women in Science: The Smithsonian Collection Peggy 2009

  • Oliver et al., “Tracheotomy in Children,” Survey of Anesthesiology, 1964;72: 9–11.

    The Panic Virus Seth Mnookin 2011

  • Oliver et al., “Tracheotomy in Children,” Survey of Anesthesiology, 1964;72: 9–11.

    The Panic Virus Seth Mnookin 2011

  • Oliver et al., “Tracheotomy in Children,” Survey of Anesthesiology, 1964;72: 9–11.

    The Panic Virus Seth Mnookin 2011

  • I would be more concerned about her ripping it out all makeshift Tracheotomy-style in sleepy grumpy rage.

    Waldo Jaquith - Me and my flu at 4:30 AM. 2006

  • They fought really well, the Geeks, forming their shields into a Phallus and preventing the assault from hurting them but then the deformed Eponymous Tracheotomy betrayed them to Xanadu by showing him a back passage behind the Geeks and that was the end of the ball game.

    Archive 2008-09-01 2008

  • Tracheotomy means that he was having trouble breathing and they needed to insert a tube in order to allow him to breath.

    CNN Transcript Oct 26, 2004 2004

  • Tracheotomy on the infant is a far more anxious proceeding than the same operation performed on the adult; because the trachea in the infant's body lies more closely within the embrace of the carotid arteries, is less in diameter, shorter, and more mobile than in the adult body.

    Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise

  • Tracheotomy probably has a beneficial effect on the disease.

    Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery Chevalier Jackson 1911

  • To attempt general anesthesia in a dyspneic case is to invite disaster (see Tracheotomy).

    Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery Chevalier Jackson 1911

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