英语释义
1. the main trunk of the system of tubes by which air passes to and from the lungs in vertebrates
2. vessel sense 3b also one of its constituent cellular elements
3. one of the air-conveying tubules forming the respiratory system of most insects and many other arthropods
4. a long tube in your neck and chest that carries air into and out of your lungs
5. a stiff-walled tube of the respiratory system that connects the pharynx with the lungs
6. a breathing tube of an insect that connects with the outside of the body and carries oxygen directly to the cells
7. the main trunk of the system of tubes by which air passes to and from the lungs that is about four inches (10 centimeters) long and somewhat less than an inch (2.5 centimeters) in diameter, extends down the front of the neck from the larynx, divides in two to form the bronchi, has walls of fibrous and muscular tissue stiffened by incomplete cartilaginous rings which keep it from collapsing, and is lined with mucous membrane whose epithelium is composed of columnar ciliated mucus-secreting cells — called also windpipe