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trachea (singular), tracheae (plural)
The cartilaginous and membranous tube descending from the larynx and branching into the right and left main bronchi.
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broncho-, bronch-, bronchi-, bronchio-
(Greek: windpipe or one of the two large branches of the trachea, the tube in air-breathing vertebrates that conducts air from the throat to the bronchi, strengthened by incomplete rings of cartilage)
laryng-, laryngo- +
(Greek > Modern Latin: throat, upper part of the windpipe; the vocal-chord area of the throat; the musculocartilaginous structure below the tongue root and hyoid bone and above the trachea)