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trachea

[trey-kee-uh, truh-kee-uh] / ˈtreɪ ki ə, trəˈki ə /


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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

Usually the tracheae open by paired stigmata placed upon the sides of a greater or less number of the somites, but never quite regularly on alternating somites.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of" 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

There was another reason to be daunted too: historical assumptions that tracheas weren’t transplantable.

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

Meanwhile, the UCL team gave donor tracheas to two more children in the United Kingdom, and a UCL surgeon attended when Macchiarini operated in Italy on a U.K. adult.

From Science Magazine Mar. 29, 2018




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