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windpipe

/wind-pahyp/US // ˈwɪndˌpaɪp //UK // (ˈwɪndˌpaɪp) //

喉管,气管,管子,嗓门

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the trachea of an air-breathing vertebrate.

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Examples

  • Behind each is a patient who cannot breathe on their own, kept alive by a ventilation machine that is connected to an invasive tube running down their windpipe and into the lungs.

  • After using her hands to clear her windpipe, she freed her eyes from the embers that were blinding her vision.

  • He was going to start a tracheotomy, which is opening the throat and inserting a tube into the windpipe.

  • Early signs indicate the windpipe is working, Hannah's doctors announced Tuesday, although she is still on a ventilator.

  • They were seeded in a lab onto a plastic scaffold, where it took less than a week for them to multiply and create a new windpipe.

  • This time when he woke up, he had a hole in his windpipe, could not speak, and could barely write.

  • His neck was torn open, bitten right through to the windpipe, the blood still dripping from it into a dark pool on the carpet.

  • It subsequently loses its connection with the pharynx, and in adult life is a bilobed structure on either side of the windpipe.

  • He didn't seem to hear Frey, and he increased the pressure of his fingers around Daisy's windpipe.

  • Captain Walpole, of the Engineers, was shot in the thigh, and a blow from an assigai upon the neck laid bare the windpipe.

  • "Only as you speak truly, may you keep a whole windpipe;—if not—" The silence was the most terrible threat.