laryngotrachea

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noun

Both larynx and trachea.

Scrabble 23

Meanings

nounlaryngotrachea (plural laryngotracheae or laryngotracheas)

plural laryngotracheae · plural laryngotracheas

  1. Both larynx and trachea.

    The laryngotracheas were cleansed and each cricothyroid muscle was isolated with blunt dissection.

    2010 May, Scott L. Lee, Quyen T. Lee, Stanley M. Shapshay, “Transcricothyroid approach to the subglottic airway in a porcine model”, in Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery, volume 142, number 5, Thousand Oaks, Calif.: SAGE Publications on behalf of the American Academy of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 765, column 2
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    Fragmentation or separation of the bolus results in scattered particles and increased risk of misentry into the nasopharynx or laryngotrachea.

    1991, Haskins K. Kashima, “Swallowing Disorders”, in K.J. Lee, editor, Essential Otolaryngology: Head and Neck Surgery (A Board Preparation and Concise Reference), 5th edition, East Norwalk, Conn.: Medical Examination Publishing Company, Appleton & Lange, →ISBN, page 462

    [T]he other method is a synthesis method, which mostly takes animal laryngotracheae, cartilages and the like as raw materials, extracts chondroitin sulfate by enzymolysis, and then takes the chondroitin sulfate as the raw material for preparation, […]

    2020, 王朋田 et al., Method for preparing heparinoids from chondroitin, via Google Patents, CN111825777B, archived from the original on 08 Jun 2025

Origin

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