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the body's only road where air and ego both get throttled
means The tube running from your throat to your lungs that carries air in and out — the trachea, in clinical terms.
from A plain Germanic compound, exactly what it says on the tin: 'wind' (Old English 'wind,' air in motion) plus 'pipe' (Old English 'pipe,' a tube, borrowed early from Latin 'pipa,' a reed or flute that whistles when you blow through it). So the windpipe is literally the pipe the wind goes through — English at its most honest, naming the body the way a plumber names a fitting.
- cartilage rings
- C-shaped, leaving a soft gap for the esophagus
- length
- roughly four inches in adult humans
- cilia army
- tiny hairs sweep mucus upward constantly
- medical name
- called the trachea by people in scrubs
- cough launch
- air exits here near 100 miles per hour
kenrestall's windpipe injury — australian rugby player whose windpipe was crushed in a 1989 match, nearly fatal
whitehall tube disaster — 1952 london underground crash where victims had windpipe injuries from the impact