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Answer for the clue "Of the windpipe ", 8 letters:
tracheal

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Word definitions for tracheal in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tracheal \Tra"che*al\, a. [Cf.F. tracheal.] Of or pertaining to the trachea; like a trachea.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. relating to or resembling or functioning like a trachea

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Of or pertaining to the ''trachea''.

Usage examples of tracheal.

He imagined the knife puncturing her skin just under the left ear, slicing the tracheal cartilages, her terrified cries, begging, explaining they were making a mistake, surely she had never done anything worth dying for.

The hyoid bone was splintered and the thyroid and tracheal cartilage crushed.

At the anterior tracheal wall, Digen carefully incised the third and fourth tracheal rings.

Jonas and his team had treated victims of catastrophic stroke, cardiac arrest, asphyxiation due to tracheal obstruction, or drug overdose.

The level of tracheal penetration, just below the thyroid cartilage, suggests to me that the neck was extended first, before the slash was made.

Even if you got a hit, the spider can breathe for a while through its tracheal tubes, more than long enough to finish you off.

The projection, thought Hal, was probably a modified tracheal opening.

I massaged the isthmus of the thyroid, pushing it out of the way, hard toward his head, and with my other hand, pressed the knife blade down into the fourth tracheal cartilage.

I have returned to discover them infected with tracheal and Varroa jacobsoni mites.

To admit of the free inflow and outflow of currents of water necessary for respiration, which is effected by means of filamentous abdominal tracheal gills, the two ends of the tube are open.

A necropsy revealed the presence of the subclavicular artery passing between the tracheal artery and the esophagus, compressing this latter tube and opposing the passage of food.

She responded by cutting the antifungal dose in half and ordering a new set of blood, urine, and tracheal cultures.