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Heimlich maneuver

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Heim·lich maneuver  (hmlk, -l)
n.
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.
[After Henry Jay Heimlich (born 1920), American surgeon.]
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Noun1.Heimlich maneuverHeimlich maneuver - an emergency procedure to help someone who is choking because food is lodged in the trachea
Heimlich manoeuvere
emergency procedure - (medicine) a procedure adopted to meet an emergency (especially a medical emergency)


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