Windpipe
71Pharynx — The hollow tube about 5 inches long that starts behind the nose and ends at the top of the trachea (windpipe) and esophagus (the tube that goes to the stomach). * * * The upper expanded portion of the digestive tube, between the esophagus below… …
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73Organ transplantation — Intervention Cosmas and Damian miraculously transplant the (black) leg of a Moor onto the (white) body of Justinian. Ditzingen, 16th century ICD 10 PCS …
74body — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) I n. torso (See body); solid, mass; group, assemblage; substance, bulk; main part. See whole, party. II Physical structure Nouns 1. body, anatomy, torso; carcass, cadaver, corpse, remains (See …
75throat — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. neck, gullet, gorge, maw; windpipe; throttle. See opening. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. neck, windpipe, larynx, trachea, esophagus, jugular region, gullet, gorge, jugulum. • cut each other s throats*, Syn …
76artery — [14] Artery is a direct borrowing from Latin artēria, which in turn came from Greek artēria. This appears to have been based on the root *ar ‘lift’. A parallel formation is thus aorta ‘main coronary artery’ [16], which comes from Greek aortē, a… …
77artery — (n.) late 14c., from Anglo Fr. arterie, O.Fr. artaire (13c.; Mod.Fr. artère), and directly from L. arteria, from Gk. arteria windpipe, also an artery, as distinct from a vein; related to aeirein to raise (see AORTA (Cf. aorta)). They were… …
78larynx — 1570s, from M.Fr. larynx (16c.), from Modern Latin, from Gk. larynx (gen. laryngos) the upper windpipe, probably from laimos throat, influenced by pharynx throat, windpipe …
79trachea — (n.) c.1400, from M.L. trachea (mid 13c.), as in trachea arteria, from L.L. trachia (c.400), from Gk. trakheia, in trakheia arteria windpipe, lit. rough artery (so called from the rings of cartilage that form the trachea), from fem. of trakhys… …
80strangling — n. act of choking someone to death, act of killing by compressing the windpipe and preventing the intake of air stran·gle || stræŋgl v. choke to death, throttle by compressing the windpipe and preventing the intake of air, asphyxiate; stifle,… …
