trachea
The trachea is the airway connecting the larynx to the bronchi, held open by rings of cartilage that keep it from collapsing.
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26 matchestracheal carina
A landmark as much as a structure: tube depth, biopsy sites and staging in the chest are all reckoned from this one ridge.
Read definitiontrachelectomy
Surgery to remove the cervix (the end of the uterus that forms a canal between the uterus and the vagina).The upper part of the vagina and certain pelvic lymph nodes may also be removed.
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A small opening made by a surgeon between the esophagus and the trachea.
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A tracheostomy provides an airway route that bypasses the mouth, nose, and throat entirely, distinguishing it from a tube passed through those structures.
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A 0.5-inch- to 1.5-inch-long plastic tube placed in a surgically created opening (tracheostomy) in the windpipe to keep it open.
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Breathing through an opening in the neck rather than the nose and mouth, with the voice box left out of the path.
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The fork in the airway, and the reason an inhaled object almost always ends up in the right lung rather than the left.
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The area in front of the trachea (windpipe).
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Placing a tube where an awake body will not tolerate one, which is why it nearly always follows sedation or unconsciousness.
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Tissue gone soft where it should be firm, a change visible on scans and under the microscope alike.
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The bronchi are the two large air passages branching from the trachea, one into each lung, that form the lungs' main airway entrance.
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Bronchial describes anything relating to the bronchi, the large airways connecting the windpipe to the lungs, as in bronchial asthma or bronchial breath sounds.
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A bronchoscope is a thin, lighted instrument passed into the airway to directly view and sample tissue from the trachea and bronchi.
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A procedure that uses a bronchoscope to examine the inside of the trachea, bronchi (air passages that lead to the lungs), and lungs.
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A bronchus is one of the two large airways connecting the trachea to a lung, continuing the path air follows into the smaller airways.
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Surgery to remove the cervix (the end of the uterus that forms a canal between the uterus and the vagina).The upper part of the vagina and certain pelvic lymph nodes may also be removed.
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A laryngectomy is a surgical procedure that removes all or part of the larynx, most often to treat laryngeal cancer.
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A laryngoscope is a lighted instrument used to view the larynx, most often to guide placement of a breathing tube.
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A thin, tube-like instrument used to examine the tissues and lymph nodes in the area between the lungs.
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