Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun heimlich_maneuver

1 sense of heimlich maneuver

Sense 1
Heimlich maneuver, Heimlich manoeuvere -- (an emergency procedure to help someone who is choking because food is lodged in the trachea)
       => emergency procedure -- ((medicine) a procedure adopted to meet an emergency (especially a medical emergency))