Definition of trachea

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Trachea (n.) One of the respiratory tubes of insects and arachnids.

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Tracheoscopy :: Tracheoscopy (n.) Examination of the interior of the trachea by means of a mirror.
Windpipe :: Windpipe (n.) The passage for the breath from the larynx to the lungs; the trachea; the weasand. See Illust. under Lung.
Throttle :: Throttle (n.) The windpipe, or trachea; the weasand..
Pauropoda :: Pauropoda (n. pl.) An order of small myriapods having only nine pairs of legs and destitute of tracheae.
Tracheal :: Tracheal (a.) Of or pertaining to the trachea; like a trachea.
Tracheate :: Tracheate (n.) Any arthropod having tracheae; one of the Tracheata.
Tracheocele :: Tracheocele (n.) A tumor containing air and communicating with the trachea.
Peritracheal :: Peritracheal (a.) Surrounding the tracheae.
Taenidium :: Taenidium (n.) The chitinous fiber forming the spiral thread of the tracheae of insects. See Illust. of Trachea.
Tracheary :: Tracheary (n.) One of the Trachearia.
Bronchia :: Bronchia (n. pl.) The bronchial tubes which arise from the branching of the trachea, esp. the subdivision of the bronchi..
Artery :: Artery (n.) The trachea or windpipe.
Stigma :: Stigma (v. t.) One of the external openings of the tracheae of insects, myriapods, and other arthropods; a spiracle..
Air Vessel :: Air vessel () A vessel, cell, duct, or tube containing or conducting air; as the air vessels of insects, birds, plants, etc.; the air vessel of a pump, engine, etc. For the latter, see Air chamber. The air vessels of insects are called tracheae, of plants spiral vessels..
Bronchus :: Bronchus (n.) One of the subdivisions of the trachea or windpipe; esp. one of the two primary divisions.
Spiracle :: Spiracle (n.) One of the external openings communicating with the air tubes or tracheae of insects, myriapods, and arachnids. They are variable in number, and are usually situated on the sides of the thorax and abdomen, a pair to a segment. These openings are usually elliptical, and capable of being closed. See Illust. under Coleoptera..
Tracheobronchial :: Tracheobronchial (a.) Pertaining both to the tracheal and bronchial tubes, or to their junction; -- said of the syrinx of certain birds..
Prototracheata :: Prototracheata (n. pl.) Same as Malacopoda.
Tracheary :: Tracheary (a.) Tracheal; breathing by means of tracheae.
Insecta :: Insecta (n. pl.) One of the classes of Arthropoda, including those that have one pair of antennae, three pairs of mouth organs, and breathe air by means of tracheae, opening by spiracles along the sides of the body. In this sense it includes the Hexapoda, or six-legged insects and the Myriapoda, with numerous legs. See Insect, n..
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