Meanings
adjectivepretracheal (not comparable)
- not comparablerelationalanatomyAnterior to the trachea.
Central lymph nodes were divided into three or four subgroups in some articles: ipsilateral paratracheal, pretracheal, contralateral paratracheal, and prelaryngeal.
2015 October 3, Wei Sun, Xiabin Lan, Hao Zhang, Wenwu Dong, Zhihong Wang, Liang He, Ting Zhang, Siming Liu, “Risk Factors for Central Lymph Node Metastasis in CN0 Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis”, in PLOS One, volume 10, number 10, →DOI
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*per-
- Proto-Indo-European*preh₂-
- Proto-Indo-European*préh₂i?
- Proto-Italic*prai
- Proto-Italic*prai-
- Latinprae-
- Middle Englishpre-
- Englishpre-
- Proto-Indo-European*dʰreh₂gʰ-
- Proto-Indo-European*dʰréh₂gʰus
- Proto-Hellenic*tʰrākʰús
- Ancient Greekτρᾱχεῖᾰ (trākheîă)
- Late Latintrāchīa
- Medieval Latintrāchēa
- Englishtrachea
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂élisder.?
- Englishtracheal
- Englishpretracheal
Translations
Chinese Mandarin 氣管前 /气管前
- 氣管前 /气管前 (qìguǎnqián)anterior to the trachea
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with pretracheal
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Cite this entry
APA
pretracheal. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pretracheal
MLA
“pretracheal.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pretracheal. Accessed November 4, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “pretracheal,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pretracheal.
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