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  1. The meaning of CHOKE is to check or block normal breathing of by compressing or obstructing the trachea or by poisoning or adulterating available air. How to use choke in a sentence.

  2. to fill something such as a road or pipe, so that nothing can pass through: At lunchtime the streets were choked with traffic. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. choke verb (FAIL)

  3. to become or cause to become speechless, as from the effect of emotion or stress: She choked up over the sadness of the tale. to become too tense or nervous to perform well: Our team began to choke up in the last inning. to stop or obstruct by or as by choking: to choke off a nation's fuel supply. choke. / tʃəʊk /.

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    • Causes of Choking
    • Prevention
    • Common Choking Hazards
    • High-Risk Foods
    • What Should I Do If Someone Is Choking?

    Certain medical conditions or circumstances can make a person more likely to choke. Risk factors include (but are not limited to): 1. Age under 5 years old 2. Advanced age or severe illness 3. Neurological illnesses 4. A disease that causes muscular degeneration, such as muscular dystrophy 5. Disorders of the esophagus such as a narrowed esophagus ...

    Children under the age of 5 have an increased risk of choking.Both cognitive development and anatomic differences in children cause an increased risk in this age group. Small children lack the ability to differentiate what objects may get stuck in their throats. This is often during their oral phase of development when they put everything into thei...

    Latex balloons – leading cause of death in children under the age of 6
    Balls
    Marbles
    Coins (18% of choking-related ED visits for children 1 to 4 years old)
    Hot dogs are the most common fatal food-related hazard
    Hard candy make up 19% of choking-related emergency room visits
    Grapes
    Nuts

    If someone is choking, you should determine whether or not they can talk. If they can talk, cough or make other noises that indicate air passage, let them clear their airway on their own. Intervention at this point may cause further lodging of the object to occur. If an individual has something caught in the esophagus they will still be able to spe...

  5. A choke is a coil of low resistance and high inductance that is used in electrical circuits to pass low frequency or direct currents while stopping the higher frequency alternating currents.

  6. choke. [intransitive, transitive] to be unable to breathe because the passage to your lungs is blocked or you cannot get enough air; to make someone unable to breathe She almost choked to death on the thick fumes. choke on something He was choking on a piece of toast. choke somebody Very small toys can choke a baby.

  7. When you choke, you are suddenly unable to breathe, often because something is stuck in your throat. Your dad's rude joke might make you gasp and choke on your grilled cheese sandwich. You might choke in a smoky room, or choke on a grape that's lodged halfway down your throat.

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