(n.) The tube by which food and drink are carried from the pharynx to the stomach; the esophagus.
(n.) Something shaped like the food passage, or performing similar functions
(n.) A channel for water.
(n.) A preparatory cut or channel in excavations, of sufficient width for the passage of earth wagons.
(n.) A concave cut made in the teeth of some saw blades.
Example Sentences:
(1) The incidence of sarcocysts was investigated microscopically after 0.25% trypsin action in the muscles of bovine gullet and diaphragmal columns of pigs.
(2) It was a speech that might well have stuck in the gullet of any Greeks or Spaniards who happened to be watching.
(3) It can be placed at the time of original surgery and is also workable in patients who have had radiation and extensive radical surgery with total reconstruction of their gullet.
(4) Concomitant with the outbreak, the supermarket implicated in the outbreak purchased an unusually large quantity of beef (7,000 pounds) from a nonregular supplier in Nebraska, which had reportedly instituted the practice of trimming gullets (a procedure that removes the muscles from bovine larynx for beef) about three months earlier.
(5) The essential part of this technique consists of the construction of a tracheo-esophageal shunt using only the remainder of the trachea obtained at the time of laryngectomy to reestablish an air communication between the trachea and the gullet.
(6) To give a true representation of vitamin amounts actually consumed, different forms of calculating losses on the way from harvesting or producing foods to the gullet have been applied.
(7) Esophageal carcinomas are visualized endosonographically as localized thickenings of the gullet wall with disruption of its echo-layers.
(8) Sometimes adjective-rich tributes to the great departing rather stick in the gullet.
(9) While there was nothing disgraceful about the behaviour of Mr Finegold, it had "stuck in his gullet" for Mr Livingstone to apologise.
(10) As an alternative to this, staple closure of the gullet has been growing in acceptance and implementation as a mucosal eversion technique.
(11) There is no cytotoxic effect on animal (kidney of monkey) and human (carcinoma of the gullet) cellular cultures.
(12) In patients with oesophageal corrosive stricture which needs operation, both a by-pass procedure and resection can be adopted, but it should be pointed out that malignancy may develop even years after the operation in the remaining part of the gullet.
(13) First, the mucosa is sufficient to restore a new gullet.
(14) Traditionally, gullet closure that is done after a laryngectomy has been accomplished with tedious and time-consuming suturing procedures.
(15) Bovine thyroid tissue had been introduced into the neck trimmings inadvertently during the process of "gullet trimming," a procedure that harvests muscles from the bovine larynx.
(16) More than 50% of the complains are of the nose-gullet which decrease with the increase of the length of service, while the objective changes in the mucous membrane of the nose raise high.
(17) Defective relaxation of the cricopharyngeal muscle (cricopharyngeal dysfunction) is radiographically demonstrated as a posterior impression into the pharyngo-esophageal segment of the gullet in patients with dysphagia.
(18) Manometric testing showed that no swallowing pressure was produced in the reconstructed gullet; therefore, bolus propulsion at the pharyngeal stage occurs mainly by gravity.
(19) The follow up in 19 patients over the last four years showed that the pectoralis major flap is a good alternative for partial reconstructions of the upper gullet, provided that a mucosal strip of 2 cm can be preserved and that secondary shrinkage of the muscle pedicle is allowed for.
(20) Compared with the other two groups of patients studied the patients with cricopharyngeal dysfunction were found to have a slightly wider gullet above and below the cricopharyngeal muscle.
Trachea
Definition:
(n.) The windpipe. See Illust. of Lung.
(n.) One of the respiratory tubes of insects and arachnids.
(n.) One of the large cells in woody tissue which have spiral, annular, or other markings, and are connected longitudinally so as to form continuous ducts.
Example Sentences:
(1) Aplasia of the trachea associated with multiple congenital anomalies is described in a stillborn male foetus with single umbilical artery.
(2) This was worsened by the right side compression of trachea end part, due to the abnormal left pulmonary artery as demonstrated by pulmonary angiography.
(3) Tracheal mucus transport rate (TMTR) and quantitative clearance of aerosolized Escherichia coli from the trachea, lung, and air sac were measured in healthy unanesthetized turkeys and in turkeys exposed by aerosol to a La Sota vaccine strain of Newcastle disease virus (NDV).
(4) Defects in the posterior one-half of the trachea, up to 5 rings long, were repaired, with minimal stenosis.
(5) Haemodynamic changes (supraventricular tachycardia, decreases in arterial pressure) were observed during laryngoscopy and intubation of the trachea in a patient receiving nifedipine and verapamil.
(6) General anaesthesia with apneic oxygenation may offer the ENT surgeon increased possibilities of exploration and operation at the level of the larynx and trachea, but owing to its biological consequences, it should be used only with circumspection and its indications should be totally justified, for acts of limited duration.
(7) Replacement of bath Na+ by choline decreased the PD of tracheas by 85% but did not change alveolar PD in the presence or absence of bumetanide.
(8) Compared to related compounds, N-nitrosobis(2-hydroxypropyl)amine and N-nitrosobis(2-acetoxy-propyl)amine which are also pancreatic carcinogens, BOP induced only a few neoplasms of the lung, liver, and kidney and none in the nasal cavity, larynx, and trachea.
(9) Experiments were conducted in a group of pigs to determine the ontogeny of antigen specific IgA in the trachea.
(10) Although they were born at different periods of the year, the calves in all three groups had similar bacterial loads in their noses and tracheas when they were 1 day old (P greater than 0.05).
(11) In one patient, a minitracheostomy tube perforated the posterior wall of the trachea, resulting in pneumomediastinum.
(12) The trachea and the bronchial tree (first through seventh order branches) both synthesized alpha1(II) chains.
(13) The respiratory functions of the oropharynx, larynx, and trachea of normal human fetuses in utero were explored by means of real-time, two-dimensional ultrasonography combined with color-flow and spectral Doppler analysis.
(14) The blood flow contributions and drainage patterns of the pulmonary and systemic circulations in the upper airways (trachea and main bronchi) were assessed in anesthetized dogs by injecting 15-micron radiolabeled microspheres into the right and left heart, respectively.
(15) There were no differences between boys and girls until age 14, when girls' tracheas stopped growing.
(16) The bronchi were involved more often than the trachea and the foreign body was located more frequently at the right bronchus (38 pt).
(17) In contrast, the cat trachea was unresponsive to histamine and prostaglandin F2alpha and did not exhibit an intrinsic tone.
(18) All four requirements were experimentally verified in calf trachea.
(19) Magnetic resonance (MR) imaging of the trachea was performed in twenty-one children with congenital or acquired narrowing of the trachea or main bronchi.
(20) Exposure to 5000 ppm SO2 rapidly caused death in all birds with cannulated tracheae and in 4 of 5 birds with an intact respiratory system; one bird in each series of experiments died when exposed to 1000 ppm.