TRACHEA
\tɹɐkˈi͡ə], \tɹɐkˈiə], \t_ɹ_ɐ_k_ˈiə]\
Definitions of TRACHEA
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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The windpipe. See Illust. of Lung.
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One of the respiratory tubes of insects and arachnids.
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One of the large cells in woody tissue which have spiral, annular, or other markings, and are connected longitudinally so as to form continuous ducts.
By Oddity Software
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The windpipe. See Illust. of Lung.
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One of the respiratory tubes of insects and arachnids.
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One of the large cells in woody tissue which have spiral, annular, or other markings, and are connected longitudinally so as to form continuous ducts.
By Noah Webster.
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The cartilaginous and membranous tube descending from the larynx and branching into the right and left main bronchi.
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Windpipe; the air-tube extending from the larynx, at the level of the disc between the 6th and 7th cervical vertebrae, to the giving off of the bronchi, at the level of the disc between the 4th and 5th thoracic vertebrae; this point is called the bifurcation of the trachea. The trachea is composed of from 16 to 20 cartilaginous rings, connected by a membrane, the annular ligament; posteriorly the rings are defective for 1/5 to 1/3 of their circumference, the interval, forming the membranous wall, being closed by a fibrous membrane containing unstriped muscular fibers.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By William R. Warner
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The windpipe or tube which conveys air to the lungs, so called from its roughness, it being formed of rings of gristle:-pl. TRACHEAE.
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TRACHEAL.
By Daniel Lyons
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TRACHEAL.
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The windpipe ; a respiratory tubule of Insects and other Arthropods ; the spiral or annular vascular tissue of plants.
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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The windpipe; a tube 4 to 4 1/2 in. long, 3/4 to 1 in. in diameter, in man, continuous with the larynx above and dividing about opposite the intervertebral fibrocartilage between the fourth and fifth thoracic vertebrae into the two bronchi. It consists of cartilaginous rings incomplete behind, united by fibrous tissue, and is lined with mucous membrane. [Gr.]
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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