Examples of windpipe in a Sentence
She got something stuck in her windpipe.
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The carotid artery can be felt on either side of your neck, in the depression adjacent to your windpipe.
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Colleen Doherty, Verywell Health, 19 Sep. 2024
Saturday Night Live alum Victoria Jackson has revealed that doctors found an inoperable tumor in her windpipe amid her battle with cancer.
—Carly Thomas, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
The slick combination of water, salts and gel-forming proteins called mucins that make up mucus also helps trap dust, allergens and infectious particles in the nose, mouth, windpipe and lungs.
—Bethany Brookshire, Scientific American, 9 Aug. 2024
When food or other foreign material enters your trachea (windpipe), the condition is called aspiration.
—Anna Giorgi, Verywell Health, 29 July 2024
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Colleen Doherty, Verywell Health, 19 Sep. 2024
Saturday Night Live alum Victoria Jackson has revealed that doctors found an inoperable tumor in her windpipe amid her battle with cancer.
—Carly Thomas, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
The slick combination of water, salts and gel-forming proteins called mucins that make up mucus also helps trap dust, allergens and infectious particles in the nose, mouth, windpipe and lungs.
—Bethany Brookshire, Scientific American, 9 Aug. 2024
When food or other foreign material enters your trachea (windpipe), the condition is called aspiration.
—Anna Giorgi, Verywell Health, 29 July 2024
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“Windpipe.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/windpipe. Accessed 1 Oct. 2024.
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windpipe
noun
wind·pipe
ˈwin(d)-ˌpīp 
Medical Definition
windpipe
noun
wind·pipe
ˈwin(d)-ˌpīp
: trachea
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