windpipe

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

Li, who suffers from a genetic degenerative condition that progressively weakens muscles, relies on a ventilator permanently connected to his windpipe to breathe, but grows celery with the help of his 62-year-old mother.

From Barron's ● Jan. 29, 2026

“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

It entails wrapping both arms around a choking victim from behind, making a fist just over the victim’s navel and thrusting upward sharply five times to eject an object that is obstructing the windpipe.

From New York Times ● Nov. 30, 2023

Sigemund had locked the two heads together, so that the fire was beaten back down the Dragon's windpipe by the blast of air from its other mouth.

From "Beowulf: A New Telling" by Robert Nye

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

He implanted synthetic windpipes seeded with stem cells from the patients’ own bone marrow, with the hope the cells would multiply over time and provide an enduring replacement.

From Science Magazine ● Jun. 21, 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

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