tracheain a sentence
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A tube runs from the ventilator box to a slit in his trachea just below the Adam's apple.
trachea = windpipe
- Before the guards can stop him, he closes a hand around my throat, squeezing my trachea with his fingertips.† (source)
- He can feel the lymph nodes on either side of his neck compressing his esophagus and trachea.† (source)
- Maybe he had larynx damage, or a destroyed trachea; maybe he'd been hit in the throat by a chunk of granite.† (source)
- Less than two weeks before departing for Nepal he had undergone minor throat surgery, leaving his trachea in an extremely sensitive condition.† (source)
- It rises, a thrashing of wings, up through her trachea-until Yo retches.† (source)
- At 4:22 a.m. Shiva was given diazepam and then pentothal, and a tube was passed into his trachea.† (source)
- Traveling at 1,904 feet per second, the 6.5-millimeter round tears through the president's trachea and then exits his body through the tight knot of his dark blue tie.† (source)
- I wasn't about to start listening to her now, and I sprang forward, fingers stiff to shatter his trachea But the metal collar around my neck zapped me with a nerve-shattering dose of electricity, and I dropped to the ground like a chunk of cement.† (source)
- My friend's trachea is closing.† (source)
- Your, ah, your larynx ...your epiglottis is swollen and your trachea is inflamed.† (source)
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- I could see the back of his eyes, the gray wrinkled brain, the heaving, gasping trachea in his throat.† (source)
- The garrotte was arced in place, the trachea severed as the patrol fell back in the underbrush, his body limp, his life over.† (source)
- After Silver inserted a tube down Ngawang's trachea and began forcing air into his lungs with a rubber "ambu bag"—a manual Pump-Ngawang began breathing again, but only after a period of at least four or five minutes when no oxygen was reaching his brain.† (source)
- Under the impetus of brain and of motor nerves extending from the spine, belly and rib cage stirred, the pleuroperitoneal cavity swelled and contracted; the breath, warmed and moistened by mucous membranes along the trachea and laden with secreted material, streamed out between the lips, now that oxygen had bonded with the hemoglobin in the blood deep in the air sacs of the lungs.† (source)
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