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hen(2) (iou) and tracheoesophageal puncture (medicine)


hen(2) (iou)



hen noun.
[Old English henn = Old Frisian, Middle Low German henne, Old High German henna (German Henne), from West Germanic deriv. of Germanic base of Old English hana cock, rel. to Latin canere sing.]
A female bird; esp. the female of the domestic fowl; in pl. also, domestic fowls of both sexes. OE.
fig.
a. A wife, a woman: spec. (Scot.) as a familiar form of address to a woman or girl. colloq. E17.
I. Banks Oh, hen! Are you all right?
b. A coward. L19.
Any of various bivalve molluscs; esp. (more fully hen-clam) a large clam, Spisula solidissima, of the N. American Atlantic coast. Chiefly N. Amer. E17.
A female fish or crustacean. M18.
Phrases: as scarce as hen's teeth very scarce. like a hen on a hot girdle: see GIRDLE noun2. like a hen with one chicken absurdly fussy.
Comb.: hen and chickens (a) (in full hen-and-chickens daisy) a freak form of the daisy, sometimes cultivated, in which smaller flower-heads grow from the edge of the main flower-head; (b) a kind of houseleek, Sempervivum soboliferum, with numerous offsets; (c) a kind of childrens' game; hen-and-egg adjective = chicken-and-egg s.v. CHICKEN noun1; henbane a plant of the nightshade family, Hyoscyamus niger, with amber purple-streaked flowers, noted for its poisonous and narcotic properties; the drug obtained from this plant; henbit either of two low-growing weeds with roundish shallowly lobed leaves: (a) (more fully small hen) the ivy-leaved speedwell, Veronica hederifolia; (b) (more fully hen dead-nettle, formerly great hen) a kind of dead-nettle, Lamium amplexicaule; hen-clam: see sense 3 above; hen-coop: for keeping fowls in; hencote (now dial.) a hen-house; hen-egg a hen's egg; hen-fruit, hen's fruit (chiefly US slang) eggs; hen-harrier a harrier, Circus cyaneus, inhabiting open country and moorland across much of the Palaearctic and New World; hen-hawk US local any of various large raptors reputed to attack poultry; hen heart = sense 2b above; hen-hearted adjective lacking courage; hen-house a small shed for fowls to roost in; fig. an establishment inhabited chiefly by women; hen night colloq. a celebration held for a woman who is about to get married, attended only by women; hen-party colloq. (orig. derog.) a social gathering of women only, esp. one held in honour of a woman about to marry; hen-roost a place where fowls roost at night; hen-run an enclosure for fowls; hen-scratch verb intrans. & trans. scratch in the manner of a hen; hen's fruit: see hen-fruit above; hensure adjective (joc.) [after COCKSURE] = COCKSURE adjective 4; henwife (chiefly Scot., arch.) a woman who keeps fowls; hen yard = hen-run above.
hennery noun an establishment or place where hens are reared or kept M19.
henny adjective & noun (a) adjective of, pertaining to, or resembling a hen; (b) noun a male fowl resembling a hen: M19.

tracheoesophageal puncture (medicine)


tracheoesophageal puncture


A small opening made by a surgeon between the oesophagus and the trachea. A valve keeps Food out of the trachea but lets air into the oesophagus for oesophageal speech.