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[ wind-pahyp ] / ˈwɪndˌpaɪp / SEE SYNONYMS FOR windpipe ON THESAURUS.COM
nounthe trachea of an air-breathing vertebrate. Origin of windpipeFirst recorded in 1520–30; wind1 + pipe1 Words nearby windpipewindow seat, window shade, window-shop, windowsill, window tax, windpipe, wind plant, wind-pollinated, wind poppy, wind power, windproof Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for windpipeAfter using her hands to clear her windpipe, she freed her eyes from the embers that were blinding her vision. Hallucinating Away a Heroin Addiction|Abby Haglage|May 4, 2014|DAILY BEAST He was going to start a tracheotomy, which is opening the throat and inserting a tube into the windpipe. Jimmy Breslin on JFK’s Assassination: Two Classic Columns|Jimmy Breslin|November 22, 2013|DAILY BEAST Early signs indicate the windpipe is working, Hannah's doctors announced Tuesday, although she is still on a ventilator. The Power of Stem Cell Research Saves a Little Girl|Ilana Glazer|May 1, 2013|DAILY BEAST This time when he woke up, he had a hole in his windpipe, could not speak, and could barely write. Mailer's Final Gift|Lawrence Schiller|February 5, 2009|DAILY BEAST
"It won't do, Gascoyne," gasped poor Corrie, on being permitted again to use his windpipe. Gascoyne, The Sandal Wood Trader|R. M. Ballantyne But I had him, held him, put all my strength with it and felt his windpipe gradually being crushed closer and closer. Fast as the Wind|Nat Gould The windpipe divides at its lower end between the lungs into two branches. Health Lessons|Alvin Davison The nose and windpipe also open into this bag, but both are closed by little doors while we swallow. Applied Physiology|Frank Overton Thrice he aimed the knife to his windpipe with a most determined threatening air. The History of John Bull|John Arbuthnot
British Dictionary definitions for windpipe
nouna nontechnical name for trachea (def. 1) Related adjective: tracheal Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to windpipeesophagus, larynx, gullet, maw, passage, gorge, pharynx, trachea, thorax, fauces Medical definitions for windpipeThe American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. Scientific definitions for windpipeThe American Heritage® Science Dictionary Copyright © 2011. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved. |