(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.
Windpipe
Definition:
(n.) The passage for the breath from the larynx to the lungs; the trachea; the weasand. See Illust. under Lung.
Example Sentences:
(1) The physicist, who had a tube inserted into his windpipe 30 years ago after developing motor neurone disease, said he was considered to be "so far gone" that medics weighed up disconnecting his ventilator.
(2) Nitrogen and atom-% 15N excess (15N') were determined in the bones, the feathers and the remaining body (skin, lungs and windpipe, head with comb and wattle, lower leg without bones and with skin, pancreas and fatty tissue).
(3) "Once an order is issued, you should break the waists of the crazy enemies, totally cut their windpipes and so clearly show them what a real war is like," he said.
(4) But some stem cell treatments have been spectacularly successful, such as the rebuilding of Claudia Castillo's windpipe .
(5) Histological examination of contaminated fetuses showed a menacing growth of abnormal protuberances in the lungs as well as highly impeded formation of capillaries, although the windpipes exhibited normal expansion.
(6) He said he sustained a neck wound but the bullet missed the arteries and the windpipe.
(7) In fact, when there is a passage of air between the wall of the tube and the wall of the windpipe passage that we have when the flask is not adequately full of air, we get some bioelectrical modifications.
(8) She took a chance on the pioneering technique and is now the first person in the world to have a windpipe transplant that was engineered rather than entirely donated.
(9) Faulty intubation of the oesophagus and the right bronchus, aspirations and reflex-related circulatory failure during intubation as well as hypoxic damage as a result of the windpipe opening being impaired are discussed from the morphological point of view.
(10) China is the DPRK’s most dominant trade partner by far and could, should it choose, put one or more fingers to Kim Jong-un’s windpipe simply by stopping buying North Korean coal, seafood and other exports.
(11) 'It was a fatuous remark, but he had to say something to relieve his windpipe.
(12) Hedge, 34, underwent emergency surgery but is expected to make a full recovery after her attackers missed her windpipe and arteries.
(13) Then they seeded them on to a piece of donated windpipe, which was transformed into something her body recognised as one of its own organs.
(14) In the fury following her remarks there was little room for any recollection of how she herself narrowly survived an assassination attempt on the eve of the mayoral election in October when her windpipe was sliced through by a knife-bearing man who resented her support for refugees.
(15) Windpipes Another biological application that's in its early days: a doctor in New York whose team is working on 3D silicone tracheas which take 15 minutes to 3D-print .
(16) It can include using electric shocks to try to correct the rhythm of the heart, repeatedly pushing down firmly on the patient's chest and inflating the lungs with a mask or tube inserted into the windpipe.
(17) On this occasion he connected with Robert Huth’s windpipe, followed by a secondary swipe at Leicester’s centre-half.