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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
windpipe
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Already, they have noticed that poor neurological control causes many children to inhale bits of food into their windpipes.
▪ And when squirted into the windpipes of mice, the viruses infected the animals' lungs and delivered the marker genes.
▪ Both these action; should help to force the matter up out of the windpipe.
▪ Its crushed her windpipe, and the doctors have put a pipe in so she can breathe.
▪ The fingers gripping her windpipe slackened and Irina slumped backwards against the desk and slid to the ground.
▪ They were grappling, and she'd got her hand on the woman's windpipe, holding her off, squeezing.
▪ Vomit burst through my windpipe and landed on the wall six feet away.
▪ You had to regard the Instantaneous solution offered by the symmetry of the razor across the windpipe, a neat line.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Windpipe

Windpipe \Wind"pipe`\, n. (Anat.) The passage for the breath from the larynx to the lungs; the trachea; the weasand. See Illust. under Lung.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
windpipe

"trachea," 1520s, from wind (n.1) in the "breath" sense + pipe (n.1).

Wiktionary
windpipe

n. 1 The trachea. 2 Any duct for air or other gas. 3 (context rare English) A section of road or bridleway which has a reputation for having strong crosswinds or localized wind swirls. 4 (context rare British slang English) The anus.

WordNet
windpipe

n. membranous tube with cartilaginous rings that conveys inhaled air from the larynx to the bronchi [syn: trachea]

Usage examples of "windpipe".

Trachea, or windpipe, the Bronchia, formed by the subdivision of the trachea, and the Lungs, with their air-cells.

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.

The position was excruciatingly difficult to support, and whenever he relaxed, the air to his windpipe was immediately cut off.

The muscles in his throat and the strengthened bone of his spinal column prevented Cati from actually snapping his neck, but there was littlie he could do to stop the closure of his windpipe.

He blinds them with his long, filthy thumbnail, and his magnetized hands crush their windpipes.

In like manner healthy human provers have become hoarse of voice through taking the plant, and troubled with a severe cough, accompanied with the expectoration of abundant yellow mucus, just as in tubercular mischief beginning at the windpipe.

Choking, clawing at his smashed windpipe, blood spurting between his fingers, the Holy Warrior reeled backward as far as he could.

I broke his clutch on my windpipe and gripped his shoulders over the subclavicular nerve clusters where a Martian should feel pain, but he was hard to down.

A silk scarf was tightened like a tourniquet around her windpipe, crimson with blood.

His nether extremities were encased in high Balbriggan buskins dyed in lichen purple, the feet being shod with brogues of salted cowhide laced with the windpipe of the same beast.

She scrambled onto his chest, crushed his windpipe with a jab of her stiffened fingers, leaped up, retrieved her chakram, and ran onward.

Nor was he satisfied with this: he took a hostage sent by the Molossians, and after severing his windpipe, cut his body into pieces and then put the throbbing parts up to be boiled or broiled.

She wondered if it had been her stone, or if he had finished the job by closing the windpipe, the way lions suffocated an animal to kill it.

The blade sliced through the windpipe and larynx, nicking the cervical vertebrae.

He removed the mask, opened the mouth, squirted a jet of cocaine down the throat to anesthetize the windpipe and prevent reflex coughing, and slipped a tube down the mouth into the windpipe.