How to Use trachea in a Sentence
trachea
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The base of the tongue leads to the epiglottis, a flap of tissue that protects the trachea.
—Clayton Dalton, The New Yorker, 27 May 2020
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The blade opened her carotid artery and cut her trachea in half, Jim Gund said.
—Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive, 28 Aug. 2020
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The tube is placed inside the trachea and a bag is attached.
—Denise Moran, Elgin Courier-News, 1 May 2017
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Mike knew that the man who lived inside had a hole in his trachea and couldn’t talk.
—Washington Post, 17 Oct. 2021
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The nail punctured the wall of the carpenter’s trachea.
—Edward Baig, USA TODAY, 12 June 2019
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Next, the glottis snaps shut, putting a lid over the trachea, or windpipe.
—Howard Lewine, sun-sentinel.com, 2 Oct. 2019
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There was swelling in his trachea and at the back of his throat, according to the report.
—Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2022
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The breath is the power source of the voice, coming up from the lungs through the trachea to the vocal cords or vocal folds.
—Star Tribune, 21 July 2021
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People can cough when the tube goes in toward the trachea, a deep, forceful cough.
—Anchorage Daily News, 6 Apr. 2020
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The whoosh and sigh of a ventilator feeds oxygen through the tube in her trachea.
—Eric Adler, kansascity.com, 25 Apr. 2017
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My watch feels heavy on my wrist, and breathing gets harder as the G forces clamp down on my trachea.
—Scott Kelly, Smithsonian, 30 Sep. 2017
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Did the coroner look for evidence only in the trachea and lungs?
—Star Tribune, 27 Feb. 2021
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Took a knee, collapsed my trachea, left on a stretcher.
—Sam Farmer, latimes.com, 15 June 2019
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The goal: get a tube in the trachea to breathe for a patient who can’t get oxygen in or carbon dioxide out, or both.
—Tony Dajer, Discover Magazine, 22 July 2015
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Sunday the 49ers simply ran the football down the Packers’ trachea.
—Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com, 19 Jan. 2020
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Following an X-ray and CT, scans showed the man suffered a tear in the trachea, also known as the windpipe.
—Vanessa Etienne, Peoplemag, 14 Dec. 2023
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Whereas the larynx resides at the top of the main airway, the syrinx sits at the bottom, where the trachea (aka the windpipe) branches out to the lungs.
—Michael B. Habib, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2022
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The study authors adeptly captured Nesyamun’s from his lips back down to the trachea.
—Ben Guarino, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Jan. 2020
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Oxygen can be delivered through tubes resting in the nose, a face mask or tube placed in the trachea or windpipe.
—CNN, 4 Oct. 2020
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On the drop curtain there’s a giant skull viewed from the side, a spinal cord and what appears to be a trachea at a disturbing remove from the spine.
—Ann Murphy, The Mercury News, 18 Feb. 2017
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There are two kinds of choke holds: a blood choke, which closes the carotid artery in the neck and cuts off blood supply to the brain; and an air choke, which closes the trachea and stops breathing.
—Alex Thomas, The New Republic, 9 June 2023
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Many of the cancers that were found to be among this unusually younger group were of the breast, trachea, lung, bowel, and stomach.
—Heather Hunter, Washington Examiner, 6 Sep. 2023
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Melinik suspected that the man had tracheitis, or an inflammation of the trachea, caused by the virus.
—Matthias Gafni, SFChronicle.com, 25 Apr. 2020
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Hundreds of choking deaths occur in the US every year due to food obstructions in the trachea.
—Wired Staff, WIRED, 21 Sep. 2009
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The bomb blast also took out part of his trachea, which makes talking difficult.
—John Wilkens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 May 2021
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Over time, the sedation was decreased, and respiratory tubes were switched from the mouth to the trachea.
—Ellen Barry, New York Times, 29 May 2018
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These symptoms happen due to swelling that occurs around the larynx (the vocal cords), trachea (windpipe), and bronchi (bronchial tubes).
—Korin Miller, SELF, 16 Oct. 2018
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The lifespan of an infant born without a trachea is measured in minutes.
—Crocker Stephenson, USA TODAY, 18 Dec. 2017
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The larynx functions like an antechamber to the windpipe, or trachea, with a flap of tissue called the epiglottis keeping food and drink from falling down the windpipe.
—Kate Golembiewski, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2024
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However, in season 8, it was revealed Henry had a tumor near his heart, causing bleeding in his lungs and trachea.
—Christina Dugan Ramirez, Peoplemag, 30 May 2024
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