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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An emergency technique used to eject an object, such as food, from the trachea of a choking person. The technique employs a firm upward thrust just below the rib cage to force air from the lungs, thereby dislodging the obstruction.
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- noun A
first aid procedure used to treatchoking . Thepatient islifted from behind, squeezing theirdiaphragm toexpel air and therebydislodging anobstruction in thewindpipe .
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- noun an emergency procedure to help someone who is choking because food is lodged in the trachea
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[After Henry Jay Heimlich, (born 1920), American surgeon.]
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Named after physician Henry Heimlich who described the procedure in 1974.
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