Windpipe

  • 21windpipe — /ˈwɪndpaɪp / (say windpuyp), /ˈwɪn / (say win ) noun the trachea of an air breathing vertebrate. {wind1 + pipe1} …

  • 22windpipe — The airway that leads from the larynx (voice box) to the bronchi (large airways that lead to the lungs). Also called trachea …

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  • 23windpipe — n. the air passage from the throat to the lungs; the trachea …

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  • 24Трахея (Trachea, Windpipe) — дыхательная трубка, начинающаяся от гортани и разделяющаяся на два главных бронха на уровне V грудного позвонка. Верхняя часть трахеи располагается непосредственно под кожей, за исключением того места, где се окружает щитовидная железа. Скелет… …

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  • 25Trachea — The trachea is a tube like portion of the breathing or "respiratory" tract that connects the "voice box" (larynx) with the bronchial parts of the lungs. The trachea is also called the "windpipe." * * * The air tube… …

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  • 26songbird — /sawng berrd , song /, n. 1. a bird that sings. 2. any passerine bird of the suborder Oscines. 3. Slang. a woman vocalist. [1765 75; SONG + BIRD] * * * Any oscine passerine (suborder Passere), all of which have a complex vocal organ, the syrinx.… …

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  • 27trachea — /tray kee euh/ or, esp. Brit., /treuh kee euh/, n., pl. tracheae /tray kee ee / or, esp. Brit., /treuh kee ee/, tracheas. 1. Anat., Zool. the tube in humans and other air breathing vertebrates extending from the larynx to the bronchi, serving as… …

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  • 28artery — ar·ter·y (är’tə rē) n. pl. ar·ter·ies 1) Anatomy Any of the muscular elastic tubes that form a branching system and that carry blood away from the heart to the cells, tissues, and organs of the body. 2) A major route of transportation into which… …

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  • 29(s)ter-1, (s)terǝ- : (s)trē- —     (s)ter 1, (s)terǝ : (s)trē     English meaning: stiff, immovable; solid, etc..     Deutsche Übersetzung: ‘starr, steif sein, starrer, fester Ghegenstand, especially Pflanzenstamm or stengel; steif gehen, stolpern, fallen, stolzieren”     Note …

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  • 30ANATOMY — ANATOMY. There is no systematic account of the anatomy of the human body in the Bible, although abundant use is made there of anatomical facts, metaphors, and expressions. Biblical anatomy is factual, empirical in the good sense of the word, and… …

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