This spasmodic action produces a gasp, causing the air to rush through the mouth and nostrils, and enter the windpipe and upper portion of the flat and contracted lungs, which, like a sponge partly immersed in water, immediately expand.

" "I know not," quoth Arthur, smiling, with his head on one side, like a budding lass that is asked to dance, "I know not that I can match our sweet friend's song; moreover, I do verily think that I have caught a cold and have a certain tickling and huskiness in the windpipe.

The years 1855-1856 beheld two other important glands of internal secretion, the thyroid, the gland in the neck astride the windpipe, and the thymus, in the chest above the heart, make their debut.

This gland consists of two maroon colored masses astride the neck, above the windpipe, close to the larynx.

Higher it rose, and the huge, thick fingers reached up and around his throat, fumbling to get at the windpipe.

The larynx, the essential organ of voice, forms the box-like top of the windpipe.

These cartilages are capped with little horn-like projections, and give attachment at their anterior angles to the true vocal cords, and at their posterior angles to the muscles which open and close the glottis, or upper opening of the windpipe.

If the object has actually passed into the windpipe, and is followed by sudden fits of spasmodic coughing, with a dusky hue to the face and fingers, surgical help must be called without delay.

Bronchi (Gr. brogchos, windpipe).

Epiglottis (Gr. epi, upon, and glottis, the entrance to the windpipe).

The cartilaginous tube situated at the top of the windpipe.

The windpipe.

Airpipe N. air pipe, air tube; airhole^, blowhole, breathinghole^, venthole; shaft, flue, chimney, funnel, vent, nostril, nozzle, throat, weasand^, trachea; bronchus, bronchia [Med.]; larynx, tonsils, windpipe, spiracle; ventiduct^, ventilator; louvre, jalousie, Venetian blinds; blowpipe &c (wind) 349; pipe &c (tube) 260; jhilmil^; smokestack.

And in spite of her misery, she began to cackle right merrily, deep down in her windpipe.

But now a gurgle was heard deep down in his windpipe; as though he would have laughed.

From a second he tore the head so that the windpipe trailed out like a red rope.

Windpipe, food-pipe, carotid, jugular, half a dozen smaller, but still formidable, vessels, a great braid of nerves, each as big as a lamp-wick, spinal cord,ought to kill at once, if at all.

"So far as I can discover, the piece of ivory has been drawn into the trachea, or windpipe, and has lodged in the mouth of the right bronchus.

"I think I could gag him," said one of his guards; "or if ye preferred it I could just throttle his windpipe a wee bit, just enough to stop his tongue and no to hurt him much.

The morse is said to roar or bellow loudly, but the animal we slew made no outcry, for the half sneezing, half snorting sounds it uttered I conceive to have been the consequence of its hasty dive, which had apparently prevented its taking in sufficient breath, and occasioned it to admit some water down its windpipe.

The windpipe of the male is very long, extending down to the end of the breast-bone, and the bird utters queer guttural screams.

And when this young simpleton, Claiborne, attempts to cram it down the public windpipe in the courts, as I understand he intends, he will fail!

Why, Barry would not eat to-day for fear the food would get stuck in his windpipe.

Cut off the nails, then cut off the head, turn back the skin and cut the neck off quite close; take out windpipe and crop, cutting off close to the body.

"But he might not notice that," cried Haw-Haw, and he caressed his scrawny neck as though he already felt fingers closing about his windpipe.