respiratory tract

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The path that air follows as it is inhaled and directed into the lungs. The respiratory tract includes the nose and nasal passages, the throat and trachea, and the bronchial tubes.

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How to use respiratory tract in a sentence

It is often present in the respiratory tract under normal conditions.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
The whole of the respiratory tract as far as the air-cells is lined by mucous membrane.
Voice Production in Singing and Speaking|Wesley Mills
Children who have the rheumatic tendency invariably suffer from inflammatory conditions of the upper respiratory tract.
The Eugenic Marriage, Volume IV. (of IV.)|Grant Hague
As we have seen, disturbances within the respiratory tract occur with very different frequency in different epidemics.
A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I|Various

They contain the fasciculus described, by Sir Charles Bell, as the respiratory tract.
A Treatise on Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene (Revised Edition)|Calvin Cutter