windpipe
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With the pressure inside my throat from the tube and the pressure outside the windpipe from my thyroid, maybe there was some damage to the nerves.
From Slate ● Apr. 18, 2026
In addition to farm work, she provides for her son day and night, including cooking and cleaning the ventilation tube in his windpipe.
From Barron's ● Jan. 29, 2026
The mother of two has idiopathic laryngotracheal stenosis, a rare condition that affects one in 500,000 women and causes abnormal narrowing of the voice box and windpipe.
From BBC ● Dec. 30, 2025
“They cannot operate and cut out the marble in my chest that is laying on my windpipe, and eventually would suffocate me to death,” she said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2024
“Sorry . . . about . . . that,” the clown wheezed through his closing windpipe.
From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs
If their windpipes are practically crushed inside their necks and their soft palates are elongated, frequently that is simply the way they are bred.
From Salon ● Sep. 4, 2023
Birds and reptiles have very different ways of producing sounds using the organs that surround their windpipes and lungs.
From New York Times ● Feb. 24, 2023
He provided artificial windpipes to 20 patients from countries that included Spain, Russian, Iceland, Britain and the United States.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 29, 2022
A year later, he began to implant synthetic windpipes seeded with stem cells isolated from the patients’ own bone marrow, claiming the cells would grow and integrate with the patients’ tissue.
From Science Magazine ● Jun. 16, 2022
Even that most doleful of Christian laments—“Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen”—sounded snappy and upbeat through these women’s windpipes as they sauntered along: “Nani oze mpasi zazo! Nani oze mpasi!”
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
