Meanings
adjectiveorolaryngeal (not comparable)
- not comparableanatomyRelating to the mouth and the larynx
1 more example
Two routes are open to the physician for introducing remedial fluids into the trachea and bronchi: (1) The natural or orolaryngeal route, which is the one most commonly employed. (2) The artificial or external route, which consists in reaching the trachea through a puncture made in the cervical region.
1922, G. Laurens, Alfred Martinet, translated by Louis T. de M. Sajous, Clinical Therapeutics, second edition, volume 1, Philadelphia: F.A. Davis Company, translation of original in French, Part II. Commonly Employed Therapeutic Procedures. VI. Procedures Relating to the Respiratory Tract. I. Upper Respiratory Passages. 6. Intratracheal Injections, page 642
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*h₁óh₃s
- Proto-Italic*ōs
- Latinōs
- Englishoro-
- Ancient Greekλᾰ́ρῠγξ (lắrŭnx)
- Latinlarynx
- New Latinlaryngeus
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂élisder.?
- Englishlaryngeal
- Englishorolaryngeal
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Chicago
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