windpipe

[ wind-pahyp ]

/ ˈwɪndˌpaɪp /

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noun

the trachea of an air-breathing vertebrate.

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Origin of windpipe

First recorded in 1520–30; wind¹ + pipe¹

Words nearby windpipe

window seat, window shade, window-shop, windowsill, window tax, windpipe, wind plant, wind-pollinated, wind poppy, wind power, windproof

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How to use windpipe in a sentence

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.
I Didn't Want to Push My Aunt to Get the Vaccine. Now I Live With Regrets|Ross Dellenger|September 12, 2021|Time
After using her hands to clear her windpipe, she freed her eyes from the embers that were blinding her vision.
Hallucinating Away a Heroin Addiction|Abby Haglage|May 4, 2014|DAILY BEAST
He was going to start a tracheotomy, which is opening the throat and inserting a tube into the windpipe.
Jimmy Breslin on JFK’s Assassination: Two Classic Columns|Jimmy Breslin|November 22, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Early signs indicate the windpipe is working, Hannah's doctors announced Tuesday, although she is still on a ventilator.
The Power of Stem Cell Research Saves a Little Girl|Ilana Glazer|May 1, 2013|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.
The Power of Stem Cell Research Saves a Little Girl|Ilana Glazer|May 1, 2013|DAILY BEAST
This time when he woke up, he had a hole in his windpipe, could not speak, and could barely write.
Mailer's Final Gift|Lawrence Schiller|February 5, 2009|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.
Uncanny Tales|Various
It subsequently loses its connection with the pharynx, and in adult life is a bilobed structure on either side of the windpipe.
Man And His Ancestor|Charles Morris
He didn't seem to hear Frey, and he increased the pressure of his fingers around Daisy's windpipe.
Hooded Detective, Volume III No. 2, January, 1942|Various
Captain Walpole, of the Engineers, was shot in the thigh, and a blow from an assigai upon the neck laid bare the windpipe.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III.|E. Farr and E. H. Nolan
"Only as you speak truly, may you keep a whole windpipe;—if not—" The silence was the most terrible threat.
God Wills It!|William Stearns Davis

British Dictionary definitions for windpipe

windpipe

/ (ˈwɪndˌpaɪp) /

noun

a nontechnical name for trachea (def. 1) Related adjective: tracheal

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Medical definitions for windpipe

windpipe

[ wĭnd′pīp′ ]

trachea

Scientific definitions for windpipe

windpipe

[ wĭnd′pīp′ ]

See trachea.

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