CHOKING

n. Cho3k'i3n2g. Gr., o-TpayyaAto>o, dyxovrj. Lat., suffocatio. Fr., etouffement. Ger., Seklemmung, Ersticken. It., soffocamento. Sp., sufocacion. Suffocation, partial or complete; especially the state in which respiration is temporarily impeded by the inhalation of an irritant, by the lodgment of a foreign body in the larynx or trachea or in such a position in the pharynx or the oesophagus as to obstruct the entrance to the glottis or pre upon the trachea, or by a sudden accumulation of blood, mucus, pus, etc., in the air-pa ages. [s. 250]