windpipe
[wind-pahyp]
- the trachea of an air-breathing vertebrate.
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Origin of windpipe
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Contemporary Examples
After using her hands to clear her windpipe, she freed her eyes from the embers that were blinding her vision.
He was going to start a tracheotomy, which is opening the throat and inserting a tube into the windpipe.
Early signs indicate the windpipe is working, Hannah's doctors announced Tuesday, although she is still on a ventilator.
This time when he woke up, he had a hole in his windpipe, could not speak, and could barely write.
Historical Examples
Then he gurgled in the darkness as if somebody's fingers had clamped his windpipe.
The Cruise of the Dry DockT. S. Stribling
When deaf is squeezin' of me windpipe, I shall 'ave a laugh in it!
The Foundations (Fourth Series Plays)John Galsworthy
Overcoming a nervous contraction of the windpipe, I had managed to exclaim "Captain Falk!"
FalkJoseph Conrad
The stem of the tree or bush becomes the windpipe (trachea).
A Handbook of HealthWoods Hutchinson
Careful skinning brings you to the neck and windpipe, which also cut off.
Practical TaxidermyMontagu Browne
windpipe
- a nontechnical name for trachea (def. 1) Related adjective: tracheal
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Word Origin and History for windpipe
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windpipe
[wĭnd′pīp′]
- See trachea.
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