VOICE-BUTTON-FISTULA-PROCEDURE

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VOICE-BUTTON-FISTULA-PROCEDURE

Definition: Technique for speech for people with a laryngectomy, and which involves the insertion of a small rubber device in the back of the throat so that sounds can be made by expelling the air through the esophagus.

Conceptual Structures
ISA	SURIGICAL-PROCEDURE
ANCESTORS	ALL CANCER-MEDICAL-SERVE CANCER-TREATMENT EVENT HEALTH-SERVE MEDICAL-SERVE PROFESSIONAL-SERVICE-EVENT SERVICE-EVENT SOCIAL-EVENT SURGERY SURIGICAL-PROCEDURE TREATMENT-TO-ATTACK-CANCER WORK-ACTIVITY
INHERITED RELATIONS	ACCOMPANIER : HUMAN (from WORK-ACTIVITY ) AGENT : PHYSICIAN (from CANCER-TREATMENT ) BENEFICIARY : PATIENT (from CANCER-TREATMENT ) INSTRUMENT : DRUG (by default) (from CANCER-TREATMENT ) LOCATION : CLINIC (from HEALTH-SERVE ) AMBULATORY (from HEALTH-SERVE ) HOSPITAL (from HEALTH-SERVE ) PURPOSE : HEAL (by default) (from HEALTH-SERVE ) CANCER-TREATMENT (from HEALTH-SERVE ) VETERINARY-SERVE (from HEALTH-SERVE ) PURPOSE-OF : HEALTH-SERVE (from CANCER-TREATMENT ) ROLE-FOR-ACTIVITY : HEALTH-ROLE (by default) (from MEDICAL-SERVE ) SERVICES-OF : CORPORATION (from SERVICE-EVENT ) THEME : EVENT (from SERVICE-EVENT ) OBJECT (from SERVICE-EVENT ) THEME-OF : EVENT (from WORK-ACTIVITY ) TREATMENT-FOR : HAVE-NEOPLASM (from CANCER-TREATMENT ) USES : DRUG (from CANCER-TREATMENT )