Elsewhere[10] he says, "Canals from the heart pass to the lung and divide in the same fashion as the windpipe does, closely accompanying those from the windpipe through the whole lung.
They propel a current of air up the windpipeto the narrow chink of the larynx, which throws the membranous edges or lips (vocal cords) of that organ into vibration, and thereby produces sound.
The space between them (the opening through which the air from the windpipe passes up into the larynx) is called the glottis.
But for the epiglottis, food might get into the larynx and thence into the windpipe every time we swallowed, with what distressing and even disastrous effect any one who has ever "swallowed the wrong way" well knows.
It should rise from the lungs through the bronchial tubes, the windpipe and the larynx into the mouth and flow out from between the lips like a river between smooth and even banks and bearing voice upon its current--a stream of melody.
Moreover, an expanded chest is a splendid resonance-chamber, affords a firm support to the windpipe and adds to the sure and vibrant quality of the tone produced.
You will note that in the second case there is hardly any stain on the handkerchief: the stain is on your windpipe and bronchial tubes.
We have never seen this fail in changing the character of such growths, and if the windpipe can be washed out repeatedly with it, we should feel sure of a desirable result.
The trouble is not there, but in the roots of the nerves by which vital energy is supplied to the windpipe and other vocal organs.
The bronchia are the branching small tubes which lead from the windpipe to all parts of the lungs.
One of these causes, giving rise to a comparatively simple form of the disease, is cramp of the ring-muscle of the windpipe, so contracting the windpipethat breathing is rendered difficult.
The Bronchia are two tubes, or branches, one proceeding from the windpipe to each lung.
As the air is blown in through bellows or a tube the upper end of the windpipe must be pressed back against the gullet, as otherwise the air will go to the stomach.
There are frequent eructations of gas and liquid and solid feed, which, reaching the paralyzed throat, pass in part into the windpipe and cause inflammations of the air passages and lungs.
They may attach themselves to the inner surface of the mouth or nose, and sometimes reach the upper part of the windpipe or of the gullet.
If medicine is given during coughing, some of the dose may pass down the windpipe to the lungs and cause a severe or a fatal pneumonia.
In cattle the two thyroid glands are close together, and when the disease affects both there may be but one uniform swelling placed in front of the windpipe below the angle of the jaw.
This system includes the nostrils and mouth, the windpipe and the lungs.
The windpipe is kept stretched widely open by a series of elastic rings of gristle.
Behind thewindpipe is the gullet, leading to the stomach.
The trachea or windpipe is a continuation of the larynx.
In most fishes the duct opens into the oesophagus from the dorsal side, but in the more primitive forms it enters from the ventral side, like the windpipe of the higher vertebrates.
This in the Ganoids opens into the dorsal side of the oesophagus, but in the Dipnoans and Crossopterygians, like the windpipe of lung-breathers, it opens into the ventral side.
Although obstructions of the windpipe caused while drenching, or food entering the lungs, will kill an animal in a very short time, obstructions in the gullet may not prove fatal for several days.
They are found in the windpipeand tubes leading into the lungs.
It is commonly seen after drenching from liquid escaping into the windpipe instead of going down the gullet.
Now insert the feather into the windpipe of the bird and by turning gently you will dislodge the worms from their attachments.
Remove the worms from the windpipe by the use of a feather, from which the fan has been stripped, leaving only a small brush at the end.
Sometimes a liniment applied to the throat and windpipe has a good effect, and I would recommend the following on account of its penetrating qualities: Aqua Ammonia Fort.
The leeches attach themselves to the inner surface of the mouth or nose, and sometimes reach the upper part of windpipe or the gullet.
Apply over the region of the windpipe the full length of the neck.
They rarely go beyond the air and food passages, generally fastening themselves to the walls of the windpipe and gullet, where they cling till the animal dies from loss of blood or suffocation.
Linseed Oil, each four ounces; mix well and apply to the throat and down the windpipe once or twice a day.
Hold still the diaphragm and the air is held loosely suspended throughout the chest, the bronchial tubes, the windpipe and the mouth.
Then the chest, bronchial tubes, windpipe and mouth are full of air.
The natural windpipe and larynx, freshly stripped from the bird, are, in the hands of a skilled performer, the best that can be devised.
If it presses too far upwards the windpipe becomes unduly pressed on.
See that there is plenty of space below the windpipe in front of the chest when it is made to fit at both top and bottom.
Once the transverse incision through the skin and subcutaneous tissues was made, it was necessary to separate the strap muscles covering the anterior muscles of the windpipe and thyroid.
Once the trachea had been exposed I took the knife and incised the windpipe at the point of the bullet injury.
The windpipe divides into two main branches, which subdivide again and again, until the finest branches are not larger than a sewing-needle.
The purpose of these rings is to keep the windpipe open.
Patients may cut their throats from ear to ear and do really little injury, or they may make a small stabbing wound and divide a large blood-vessel and die almost immediately, or they may cut the windpipe and not cut the blood-vessels.
There is at the opening of the windpipe a cover, the epiglottis, which is generally open, but which closes when food is swallowed and helps to keep food from entering.
The fingers closed on his windpipe too tightly for comfort.
Because bread is good and wholesome and necessary and nourishing, shall you thrust a crumb into my windpipe while I am talking?
He took drowning to be when water got into the windpipe or lungs, and believed that whether a person fell into the water alive or dead, some quantity would find its way there.
The three remaining mutes are spoken with the tongue rising to the palate near the throat, and the windpipe echoing to the breath.
Breath is expelled by the lungs through the windpipe into the mouth, whence it passes out.
Understand, that the windpipe of goats is such by reason of the abundance of humidity.
And, with the spring of a tiger, he had me by the throat, with those great, grabbing hands of his, his fingers closing cruelly on my windpipe as he tried to shake the life out of me.
As long as your larynx and windpipe are inflamed or tickled by disease-germs or other poisons, your body will do its best to get rid of them by coughing, or, if they swarm on the mucous membrane of the nose, by sneezing.
I'll tear the windpipe out o' anybody wot's been a-meddlin' with you.
All animals with lungs have some sort of contrivance in the windpipe that is able to set the air in vibration as it is expelled or inhaled.
You can show the windpipe and gullet by sewing through the neck from side to side, and forming a hollow from the corner of the jaw down the side of the neck, as shown in the figure.
The neck is very long, very thin and flat, the joints of the vertebrae often show very plainly, and the windpipe has a way of shifting over the sides of the neck in a most free-and-easy way.
To compress the windpipeof (a person or animal) until death results from stoppage of respiration; to choke to death by compressing the throat, as with the hand or a rope.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "windpipe" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
