Artificial respiration can save a life whenever breathing has stopped but heartbeat has not, as in near-drowning, electric shock, choking, gas poisoning, drug poisoning, injury to the chest, or suffocation from other causes. It is also administered along with other procedures in cases of cardiac arrest.
-stomy. a combining form used in the names of surgical operations that involve the establishment of an artificial opening into or between the part or parts specified by the initial element: colostomy. -stomia, derivative of stoma stÃ³ma. Mouth-see, -stome y ]. 3
Definition. 1  Thyroidectomy is a surgical procedure in which all or part of the thyroid gland is removed. 2  All or part of the thyroid gland may be removed to correct a variety of abnormalities of the gland. 3  There are definite risks associated with the procedure.