Word: trachea
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...natural-born mimic with a voice box in its trachea, the Mynah lives all over the orient, especially in India and the Malay Penninsula. Not all Mynahs can be taught to talk. Those that can are a gold mine for bird fanciers...
...efficient for very small animals, but becomes rapidly less efficient with increase of size, until it ceases to be of use at a bulk below that of a house mouse. [So] no insect has become moderately large by vertebrate standards or moderately intelligent." If the termite had a proper trachea, man might never have appeared on earth...
Enterprising reporters from Baltimore, Washington and New York soon discovered that Dr. Fleming had a big reputation among Hagerstown folk for his ingenious operations. Two years ago, when a patient was brought to him with trachea and larynx squeezed together by an automobile accident, he made an incision in her throat, inserted a rubber tube, and thus provided a firm wall around which a "new" windpipe could grow. Fourteen weeks later he removed the tube, and after a few minor operations, the patient was again able to swallow and talk...
...enters each lung through a bronchus, which branches from the windpipe (trachea). A bronchus subdivides successively into bronchioles, air ducts (ductuli alveolares), air pockets (atria), lobules. Lobules bulge with many air sacs (acini) which look like clusters of grapes. Walls of the lobules adjoin walls of capillaries in which the pulmonary veins and pulmonary arteries terminate. The pulmonary arteries bring dark blood loaded with carbon dioxide from the body's tissues to the lobules. The lobules treat the blood with fresh oxygen, leaving it pure and crimson...
...timed]: Closing trachea [wind-pipe...