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  1. Surgical opening in the windpipe (trachea),
  2. usually created for the insertion of a tube
  3. to enable the patient to breathe. It is done
  4. either to bypass the airway impaired by
  5. disease or injury, or to safeguard it during
  6. surgery or a prolonged period of mechanical
  7. ventilation.
  8.