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trachea
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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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