trachea
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The trouble with this was that the abductor muscles are the ones that open the trachea, allowing airflow to the lungs.
From Slate ● Apr. 18, 2026
Chemotherapy and radiation left him with a tube in his trachea and difficulty breathing - something that was written into his final role, reprising his "Iceman" character in the 2022 Top Gun sequel.
From BBC ● Dec. 31, 2025
"You can protect the blood vessels in your neck. It also helps shield your trachea in front," he added.
From Barron's ● Nov. 8, 2025
It found evidence of “severe bilateral acute pulmonary edema” and “frothy pulmonary edema in trachea and mainstem bronchi.”
From Salon ● Jan. 21, 2025
He can feel the lymph nodes on either side of his neck compressing his esophagus and trachea.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
Paolo Macchiarini, the surgeon famed and then disgraced for implanting artificial tracheae seeded with stem cells into patients, took the stand in his trial for assault in Solna, Sweden, last week.
From Science Magazine ● May 11, 2022
I started going to twee pet shops for cow tracheae, bull penises and limited-ingredient-grain-free-single-source kibble.
From Salon ● Nov. 10, 2018
Aquatic chelicerates utilize gill respiration, whereas terrestrial species use either tracheae or book lungs for gaseous exchange.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 25, 2013
Canine Health Foundation, as well as to their collaboration with the Orthopedic Foundation for Animals to measure the diameters of tracheae in bulldogs in order to combat bracycephalic airway syndrome.
From New York Times ● Nov. 23, 2011
Gill-slits.—The possession of gill-slits is as interesting a feature in the organization of Balanoglossus as is the presence of tracheae in Peripatus.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" by Various
Earlier studies from other research groups suggested that flu-related glycan receptors were present in the noses, tracheas, and lungs of cattle.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 23, 2026
We need our tracheas to stay open while we recline, lest we suffer apneas and struggle to breath during slumber.
From Salon ● Jun. 12, 2022
Hundreds of Americans are estimated to die each year because techniques like stents, surgery or lasers cannot heal their damaged tracheas, and they suffocate when airways narrow dangerously or collapse.
From New York Times ● Apr. 6, 2021
Macchiarini's failure to do pre-clinical tests on animals using the plastic tracheas was "the worst crime you can commit", he added.
From BBC ● Feb. 26, 2019
Macchiarini operated on more than a dozen other patients, but switched to using tracheas made from a polymer instead of donor organs in 2011.
From Science Magazine ● Mar. 29, 2018
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