Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An intrinsic muscle of the windpipe. In man the name is applied to the set of circular or transverse muscular fibers.
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Examples
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_Tubicinella trachealis_, Shaw, attached to whales.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" Various
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-- The gape-worm, _Syngamus trachealis_, is from 0.2 to
Common Diseases of Farm Animals R. A. Craig
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The carina trachealis normally moves slowly forward as well as downward during deep inspiration, returning quickly during expiration.
Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery Chevalier Jackson 1911
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But as the inflammation is seldom I suppose confined to the upper part of the trachea only, but exists at the same time in other parts of the lungs, and as no inflammation of the tonsils is generally perceptible, the uncouth name of cynanche trachealis should be changed for _peripneumonia trachialis_.
Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766
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The Cynanche trachealis, or Croup, of Dr. Cullen, or Angina polyposa of
Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766
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By tonsillitis the inflammation of the tonsils is principally to be understood; but as all inflammations generally spread further than the part first affected; so, when the summit of the windpipe is also much inflamed, it may be termed tonsillitis trachealis, or croup.
Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766
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The peripneumony is very fatal to young children, especially as I believe it is frequently mistaken for a spasmodic asthma, or for the croup, or cynanche trachealis of Cullen.
Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766
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But if it be further considered, that bronchotomy has actually preserved life under the more unfavour - able disease of cynanche trachealis, the operation becomes expedient.
Medico-Chirurgical Transanction The Medical and Chirurgical Society of London 1812
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“Cynanche trachealis — that disease makes brief work.
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"Cynanche trachealis -- that disease makes brief work.
The Fair Maid of Perth St. Valentine's Day Walter Scott 1801
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