As nouns the difference between cricothyroidotomy and cricothyrotomy

is that cricothyroidotomy is (medicine) an emergency surgical procedure, a form of tracheotomy, in which a hole is cut through the patient's neck into the windpipe in order to allow air into the lungs while cricothyrotomy is (surgery) an incision made through the skin and cricothyroid membrane to establish a patent airway during certain life-threatening situations, such as airway obstruction by a foreign body, angioedema, or massive facial trauma.