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Trachea :: Trachea (n.) The windpipe. See Illust. of Lung.

Tracheotomy :: Tracheotomy (n.) The operation of making an opening into the windpipe.

Choke :: Choke (n.) A stoppage or irritation of the windpipe, producing the feeling of strangulation..

Strangle :: Strangle (v. t.) To compress the windpipe of (a person or animal) until death results from stoppage of respiration; to choke to death by compressing the throat, as with the hand or a rope..

Artery :: Artery (n.) The trachea or windpipe.

The Gapes :: The gapes () A disease of young poultry and other birds, attended with much gaping. It is caused by a parasitic nematode worm (Syngamus trachealis), in the windpipe, which obstructs the breathing. See Gapeworm..

Windpipe :: Windpipe (n.) The passage for the breath from the larynx to the lungs; the trachea; the weasand. See Illust. under Lung.

Bronchus :: Bronchus (n.) One of the subdivisions of the trachea or windpipe; esp. one of the two primary divisions.

Larynx :: Larynx (n.) The expanded upper end of the windpipe or trachea, connected with the hyoid bone or cartilage. It contains the vocal cords, which produce the voice by their vibrations, when they are stretched and a current of air passes between them. The larynx is connected with the pharynx by an opening, the glottis, which, in mammals, is protected by a lidlike epiglottis..

Roaring :: Roaring (n.) An affection of the windpipe of a horse, causing a loud, peculiar noise in breathing under exertion; the making of the noise so caused. See Roar, v. i., 5..

Ciliated :: Ciliated (a.) Provided with, or surrounded by, cilia; as, a ciliate leaf; endowed with vibratory motion; as, the ciliated epithelium of the windpipe..

Pipe :: Pipe (n.) A passageway for the air in speaking and breathing; the windpipe, or one of its divisions..

Choke :: Choke (v. t.) To render unable to breathe by filling, pressing upon, or squeezing the windpipe; to stifle; to suffocate; to strangle..

Cynanche :: Cynanche (n.) Any disease of the tonsils, throat, or windpipe, attended with inflammation, swelling, and difficulty of breathing and swallowing..

Bronchotomy :: Bronchotomy (n.) An incision into the windpipe or larynx, including the operations of tracheotomy and laryngotomy..

Blain :: Blain (n.) A bladder growing on the root of the tongue of a horse, against the windpipe, and stopping the breath..

Thrapple :: Thrapple (n.) Windpipe; throttle.

Stifle :: Stifle (v. t.) To stop the breath of by crowding something into the windpipe, or introducing an irrespirable substance into the lungs; to choke; to suffocate; to cause the death of by such means; as, to stifle one with smoke or dust..

Throttle :: Throttle (n.) The windpipe, or trachea; the weasand..

Arteriac :: Arteriac (a.) Of or pertaining to the windpipe.

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