heimlich maneuver

Heim·lich maneuver   (hīm'lĭk', -lĭKH')    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.]

Main Entry: Heim·lich maneuver
Pronunciation: "hIm-lik-
Function: noun
: the manual application of sudden upward pressure on the upper abdomen of achoking victim to force a foreign object from the trachea
Heimlich, Henry Jay (b 1920), American surgeon. Heimlich wrote a number of medical works for the layman,on such topics as surgery of the stomach, duodenum, and diaphragm and on postoperative care for thoracic surgery. He devised an operation for the replacement of the esophagus and developed the Heimlichmaneuver, publishing a monograph on it in 1976.

Heimlich maneuver 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 up through the trachea, thus dislodging the obstruction.