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TRACHEAL TUGGING

\tɹɐkˈiːl tˈʌɡɪŋ], \tɹɐkˈiːl tˈʌɡɪŋ], \t_ɹ_ɐ_k_ˈiː_l t_ˈʌ_ɡ_ɪ_ŋ]\

Definitions of TRACHEAL TUGGING

1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary

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pulling sensation of the trachea due to aneurysm of arch of the aorta.

1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland

A sign of thoracic aneurism consisting in the sense of downward traction of the larynx with the cardiac systole when the thyroid cartilage is gently raised between the finger and thumb.

1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
By Smith Ely Jelliffe

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