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

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

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..

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..

Weasand :: Weasand (n.) The windpipe; -- called also, formerly, wesil..

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..

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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..

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

Thropple :: Thropple (n.) The windpipe.

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

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

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

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