Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Of or pertaining to the trachea or windpipe: as, tracheal rings or cartilages; tracheal vessels; tracheal respiration.
- In botany, of or pertaining to tracheæ.
Wiktionary
- adj. Of or pertaining to the trachea.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Of or pertaining to the trachea; like a trachea.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. relating to or resembling or functioning like a trachea
Examples
“Fetal lung growth after short-term tracheal occlusion is linearly related to intratracheal pressure.”
“The outer layer, or epidermis, appears in green; the blue branches along the top are part of a network of air-carrying tubes called the tracheal system; and the posterior intestine, or hindgut, is seen as two distinct curved green lines.”
The Washington Post: Embryo of fruit fly is subject of award-winning photo
“People were quite frightened, because he was having what was described as a tracheal problem.”
“Other factors include colonies that are too small; lack of food stored in the fall; another parasite called the tracheal mite; and a fungus called nosema that gets into the bee's gut and makes it less able to absorb nutrients.”
“Many animals, such as insects, get by without any type of oxygen transport protein in their circulation because they're small enough that they can rely exclusively on the passive diffusion of oxygen through what's called the tracheal system.”
“That's because bugs breathe through their skin, using a series of tubes called tracheal tubes.”
“In addition to causing aggressive behavior toward owners, neighbors and other animals, chaining can lead to injuries such as tracheal damage.”
“Currently percutaneous tracheostomy is accepted as a safe and reliable bedside procedure; however, the potential for intraoperative complications such as tracheal damage still exists.”
“Longaker MT, Harrison MR, Adzick NS: Testing the limits of neonatal tracheal resection.”
“Pulmonary arteriole muscularization in lambs with diaphragmatic hernia after combined tracheal occlusion/glucocorticoid therapy.”
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