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  • n  membranous tube with cartilaginous rings that conveys inhaled air from the larynx to the bronchi

  • For decades doctors had tried to divert air from the windpipe back up into the blocked-off pharynx.
  • In a transplant first, doctors in Spain gave Claudia Lorena Castillo Sanchez, 30, a new windpipe, constructed from a donor trachea lined with Sanchez's own stem cells.
  • The animal is unfit if either windpipe or gullet is torn out or removed from its regular position during the slaughtering.
News & Articles

  • Print Me a New Nose
    Or a windpipe. Or a kidney. The radical future of spare body parts.
    June 17, 2013 - New York Magazine
Quotes

  • St Jerome in Kingman Daily Miner
    According to them, she'd died of the vomit that had come up and closed off her windpipe,Jerome said in a recent interview. "When I got there, she was on life support, but I talked to one of the doctors there and he said, 'There's no way,...
  • Richard Hill in Sportinglife.co.za
    Hill said: "For him to come back after a nasty throat injury - it was a bizarre fracture of the windpipe - and play like that showed what he can do. He bullocked his way over for two tries and I was very pleased with the second-half performance from...
  • Alex McLeish in Football365.com
    The lads were having a right good laugh about it in there. We thought that the big fella was in a life-threatening situation but I think he got winded after getting smashed in the windpipe,said Big Eck.

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