windpipe

[ wind-pahyp ]

noun

1. the trachea of an air-breathing vertebrate.

windpipe

/ ˈwɪndˌpaɪp /

noun

1. See trachea
   a nontechnical name for trachea tracheal

Word History and Origins

Origin of windpipe¹

First recorded in 1520–30; wind ¹ + pipe ¹

Example Sentences

Behind each is a patient who cannot breathe on their own, kept alive by a ventilation machine that is connected to an invasive tube running down their windpipe and into the lungs.

From Time

After using her hands to clear her windpipe, she freed her eyes from the embers that were blinding her vision.

From The Daily Beast

He was going to start a tracheotomy, which is opening the throat and inserting a tube into the windpipe.

From The Daily Beast

Early signs indicate the windpipe is working, Hannah's doctors announced Tuesday, although she is still on a ventilator.

From The Daily Beast

They were seeded in a lab onto a plastic scaffold, where it took less than a week for them to multiply and create a new windpipe.

From The Daily Beast

This time when he woke up, he had a hole in his windpipe, could not speak, and could barely write.

From The Daily Beast

His neck was torn open, bitten right through to the windpipe, the blood still dripping from it into a dark pool on the carpet.

From Project Gutenberg

It subsequently loses its connection with the pharynx, and in adult life is a bilobed structure on either side of the windpipe.

From Project Gutenberg

He didn't seem to hear Frey, and he increased the pressure of his fingers around Daisy's windpipe.

From Project Gutenberg

Captain Walpole, of the Engineers, was shot in the thigh, and a blow from an assigai upon the neck laid bare the windpipe.

From Project Gutenberg

"Only as you speak truly, may you keep a whole windpipe;—if not—" The silence was the most terrible threat.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• esophagus
• larynx