Word: trachea
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...Thank you for the two gruesome closeups [TIME, May 28]. The headless, body with the cavernous trachea is a masterpiece. Your well-balanced shot of the young marine bleeding all over the petrol tank is also appealing. Mind you, I've noticed that some of the more squeamish journals invoke the same feeling of revulsion with good prose. I would rather have my horror pictorially, so please don't go highbrow and use the English language. Keep at it with your candid" camera...
Swallowing Air. In natural speech, air from the lungs is exhaled through the windpipe (trachea), past the "vocal cords" (membranes of the larynx). If these membranes are tensed and vibrated, a tone is produced. That tone and its timbre are modified by the tongue, teeth and lips to make the different sounds of speech. In the laryngectomee, the exhaled air escapes through the hole in his neck (tracheostomy) where his Adam's apple used to be. But air can also be swallowed through the gullet (esophagus) and burped back again. And the swallowing muscles...
Among women, there were fractional bobbles in the rates from 1949 to 1952, and the overall rates for cancer of the lung (including trachea and bronchi) were markedly lower than in men. But generally the rate of respiratory cancer among women also trended upward...
...Raymond had recommended a thorough bronchoscopy as soon as Sandy was six months old. The examination, at Philadelphia's Chevalier Jackson Clinic, showed a rare malformation: the aorta (great artery) leading up from the heart normally passes in front of the esophagus (gullet) and trachea (windpipe). Sandy's aorta was divided and formed a ring around the two tubes. When food distended the gullet, the windpipe was squeezed...
...Seventeen had serious dust injury to their eyes, one man died of dust in his respiratory tract, three others were made very ill by it. In addition, at operations for other injuries, "the anesthetist remarked time & time again on the dirt in the pharynx and trachea [throat and windpipe]. Standing out in my memory are two in which the inside of the trachea was quite black and dry with dust. . . . An air-raid warden . . . told me that several of the dead found by his rescue party had been suffocated by dust-the mouth, nose and throat being completely blocked...