heimlich maneuver

Heimlich maneuver

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noun heimlich maneuver an emergency rescue procedure for application to someone choking on a foreign object, in which the rescuer places a fist between the victim's lower ribs or upper abdomen from behind and exerts sudden pressure in the form of thrusts of sufficient force to help eject the object from the windpipe. 1
noun heimlich maneuver an emergency technique used to dislodge an object stuck in the windpipe: air is forced up the windpipe by applying sudden, sharp pressure to the abdomen just below the rib cage 0
noun heimlich maneuver (emergency medicine) A first aid procedure used to treat choking. The patient is lifted from behind, squeezing their diaphragm to expel air and thereby dislodging an obstruction in the windpipe. 0

before 1970

One of the 2% newest English words

1970-75, Americanism; after H. J. Heimlich (born 1920), U.S. physician who devised it

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