laryngotomy

BRONCHOTOMY (Gr. [Greek: bronchos], wind-pipe, and [Greek: temnein], to cut), a medical term used to describe a surgical incision into the throat; now largely superseded by the terms laryngotomy, thyrotomy and tracheotomy, which indicate more accurately the place of incision.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various

Crico-thyroid interval where laryngotomy is performed.

Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise

The operations of tracheotomy and laryngotomy in the child and adult, The right and left brachio-cephalic arteries and their varieties considered surgically.

Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise

In addition to the fact, that the carotid arteries lie farther apart from each other and from the median place -- viz., the crico-thyroid interval, which is the seat of laryngotomy -- than they do lower down on either side of the trachea, it should also be noticed that the tracheal tube being more moveable than the larynx, is hence more liable to swerve from the cutting instrument, and implicate the vessels.

Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise

If it is found impossible to remove the body through the mouth, laryngotomy or tracheotomy should be performed, and the body extracted through the wound, or pushed up into the pharynx and removed by this route.

Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893

When the swelling is excessive, it may be necessary to make longitudinal incisions into the substance of the tongue, and dyspnœa may call for laryngotomy.

Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893

If this is impossible, and if suitable forceps are not at hand, it may be necessary at once to perform laryngotomy, followed by artificial respiration, because, although the patient may appear lifeless, the heart continues to beat after breathing has ceased.

Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893

_ -- If the symptoms are urgent, laryngotomy, which consists in opening the larynx below the glottis by dividing the crico-thyreoid membrane, or tracheotomy must be performed at once, and an attempt made to remove the foreign body thereafter.

Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893

-- As a temporary expedient in cases of great urgency, where proper instruments and assistants are not at hand, laryngotomy is occasionally useful, though from the want of space without encroaching on the cartilages of the larynx, and from its close proximity to the disease, laryngotomy is by no means a suitable or permanently successful operation.

A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners Joseph Bell 1874

_laryngotomy_; B B, dotted outline of thyroid isthmus and lobes, defines the upper and lower positions for _tracheotomy_; C, thyroid -- D, cricoid cartilages; E, dotted outline of thymus gland in child of two years; F

A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners Joseph Bell 1874