What's the difference between trachea and tracheobronchial?

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.

Tracheobronchial


Definition:

  • (a.) Pertaining both to the tracheal and bronchial tubes, or to their junction; -- said of the syrinx of certain birds.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Anhidrotic ectodermal dysplasia is characterized by an absence of seromucous glands in the oropharynx and tracheobronchial tree, making children with this disease prone to viral and bacterial respiratory infections.
  • (2) Findings for 56 patients show the largest normal mediastinal nodes to be in the subcarinal and right tracheobronchial regions.
  • (3) Patients with malignant disease are known to have an increased incidence of multinucleation in their tracheobronchial ciliated epithelial cells as compared with controls matched by age, sex and smoking habit.
  • (4) It imitates the conventional percussion massage of the thorax by introducing high-frequency gas oscillations (300 impulses per minute) into the tracheobronchial system.
  • (5) The effect of manual percussion of the thorax in nine patients with stable chronic airflow obstruction and excessive tracheobronchial secretion has been studied.
  • (6) Mean tracheobronchial mucociliary clearance was depressed after administration of both beta blocking drugs, although the reduction was significant (p less than 0.05) only when propranolol was compared with placebo.
  • (7) We conclude that the characteristics of the epithelial lining of the mammalian tracheobronchial airway tree are very species-specific.
  • (8) The inoculated metastases do not deteriorate the prognosis of the bronchogenic cancer, if the mediastinoscopy is strictly limited to the paratracheal and tracheobronchial lymphnodes.
  • (9) These results indicate that human tracheobronchial apomucins consist of a family of different proteins.
  • (10) We report three patients who had small caliber feeding tubes passed through the tracheobronchial tree perforating into the pleural space.
  • (11) Particle distributions in dog and rat lung lobes and tracheobronchial lymph nodes (TBLN) were studied up to several weeks after particle instillations using methacrylate-embedded tissues and epifluorescence light microscopy.
  • (12) The only incidents seen were related to the lack of tracheotomy: subcutaneous oedema of the neck during the postoperative period in eight patients and moderate tracheobronchial congestion in five patients.
  • (13) The results of surgical therapy have been unsatisfactory in the past because of poor long-term left pulmonary artery patency and failure to address concomitant primary tracheobronchial stenoses.
  • (14) In the light of the greater importance of viral and bacteriological infections of the airways in children and in the light of the frequency of confirmed malformations of the tracheobronchial tree the further appropriateness for an antibiotic long-term therapy after a thorough bronchological examination is established.
  • (15) Tracheobronchial deposition of inhaled particles in rabbit lung was studied after exposure to monodisperse aerosols 4--9 micrometer (aerodynamic diameter).
  • (16) The acetylcholine-evoked vasodilatation in the tracheobronchial circulation had the same magnitude when using pancuronium or succinylcholine as skeletal muscle relaxants.
  • (17) It is therefore recommended that Aqueous Dionosil be used in preference to Gastrografin or Iopamidol for studies of the oesophagus whenever there is a danger of aspiration of contrast agent into the tracheobronchial tree.
  • (18) Congenital anomalies of the tracheobronchial tree must be included in the differential diagnosis of children with symptoms of respiratory distress.
  • (19) Management of tracheobronchial disease requires careful preoperative evaluation and close cooperation between anesthesiologic and surgical procedures.
  • (20) Gram-negative colonization of the oropharynx, followed by the spread of bacteria to the tracheobronchial tree, commonly precedes the development of pneumonia.

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