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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 636 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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BRONCHOTOMY (Gr. /3p6-y os, wind-pipe, and TEµvecv, to cut)

BRONCHOTOMY (Gr. /3p6-y os, See also:
WIND
WIND (a common Teut. word, cognate with Skt. vats, Lat. ventus, cf. " weather," to be of course distinguished from to " wind," to coil or twist, O.Eng. windan, cf. "wander," "wend," &c.)
wind-See also:
PIPE
pipe, and TEµvecv, to cut) , a medical See also:

TERM

term used to describe a surgical incision into the See also:

THROAT (O. Eng. protu, prote or }Prota, possibly from preotan, to press, whence threat, or, with loss of initial s, connected with strut, to swell)

throat; now largely superseded by the terms laryngotomy, thyrotomy and See also:

TRACHEOTOMY

tracheotomy, which indicate more accurately the See also:

PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place of incision .

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