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
A mastectomy is a surgical procedure in which all or a portion of a breast is removed as a part of treatment for breast cancer. In some cases, mastectomy is performed prophylactically (to prevent cancer from occurring) in women with a high risk for developing breast cancer.