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trachea
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Trachea is a genus of moths of the Noctuidae family.
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n. membranous tube with cartilaginous rings that conveys inhaled air from the larynx to the bronchi [syn: windpipe ] one of the tubules forming the respiratory system of most insects and many arachnids [also: tracheae (pl)]
Usage examples of trachea.
At the autopsy it was found that an abscess communicating with the trachea had been formed in the pharynx and esophagus.
He used a single swift slash that severed the trachea, the esophagus, the vagus nerves, the carotid artery, and the jugular vein.
Trachea, or windpipe, the Bronchia, formed by the subdivision of the Trachea, and the Lungs, with their air-cells.
These glands are most numerous in the Pharynx, Esophagus, Trachea, Bronchia, Vagina and Urethra.
THE ORGANS OF RESPIRATION are the Trachea, or windpipe, the Bronchia, formed by the subdivision of the Trachea, and the Lungs, with their air-cells.
MEMBRANOUS CROUP is supposed to originate in the trachea, from which, as it progresses, it often extends upward to the larynx, and downward to the bronchial tubes.
In the trachea, bronchi, and larger bronchial tubes, the stiffness is supplied by rings of cartilage, while in the smaller tubes this is replaced by connective and muscular tissue.
Demonstrate the trachea, bronchi, and the bronchial tubes, and the general arrangement of pulmonary arteries and veins.
Hawkeye dissected the bronchus up to where- the trachea divides and applied a stapling device which saves sewing it by hand.
Wirth, Fine, and Evers, all mention perforating wounds of the trachea and esophagus with recoveries.
Then he tied off the carotid arteries, clamped the trachea and esophagus, cut through the diaphragm and the pleural sac, and removed the heart and the lungs together.
In the presence of eminent physicians, and other scientific persons, he resuscitated an alligator which had been killed by tying the trachea.
In the adult, the trachea, in its unextended state, is from four and one-half to five inches in length, about one inch in diameter, and, like the larynx, is more fully developed in the male than in the female.
In Terran birds the songs and calls are produced in the syrinx, an organ posterior to the larynx, at the junction of the bronchi and the trachea.
Air taken in at the mouth goes down the trachea to the bronchi, which branch.