(n.) The windpipe; -- called also, formerly, wesil.
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Windpipe
Definition:
(n.) The passage for the breath from the larynx to the lungs; the trachea; the weasand. See Illust. under Lung.
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(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.