trachea; windpipe
Anatomical term for the tube connecting the larynx to the bronchi. Used in medical and everyday contexts.
Food went down my windpipe and I choked.
The doctor examined the condition of the trachea with an endoscope.
The food went down the wrong pipe and I started coughing.
A foreign object got stuck in his windpipe and he had trouble breathing.
The doctor performed a tracheotomy to secure the patient's breathing.
食道 is the esophagus (the passage for food), while 気管 is the trachea (the passage for air), and the two are easily confused as neighboring throat organs.
喉頭 is the larynx (voice box) sitting just above the 気管 (trachea), so learners sometimes mix up which structure is which.
気管 is the single windpipe leading down from the throat, while 気管支 are the smaller branching tubes that split off from it into the lungs.
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Composed of 気 (air, breath) and 管 (tube, pipe), literally 'air tube'. The term is a direct anatomical designation.
endotracheal intubation; intratracheal intubation
tracheal tube; endotracheal tube
sinobronchial syndrome; SBS