tracheotomy

Stedman's Medical Dictionary: A Practical Medical Dictionary · 1920 · p. 35

(tra-ke-ot'o-ml) [G. iracheia, windpipe, + the trachea, infe'rior t., t. performed below the isthmus of the thyroid gland, supe'rior t., t. performed above the isthmus of the thyroid gland.