trachea

organo delle vie aeree inferiori

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The trachea, or windpipe, is a tube made of cartilage that connects your voice box to your lungs and allows air to pass through to them. It's a crucial part of the breathing system found in nearly all land vertebrates, and it's held together by ring-shaped cartilage and muscles that keep it open for air passage.

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Key facts

Anatomy.Name: Trachea
Anatomy.Latin: trachea
Anatomy.Image: Illu_conducting_passages.svg
Anatomy.Caption: Human trachea
Anatomy.Artery: Tracheal branches of inferior thyroid artery
Anatomy.Vein: Brachiocephalic vein, azygos vein accessory hemiazygos vein
Anatomy.PartOf: Respiratory tract

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Research

59,295 papers

Scaffold-free trachea regeneration by tissue engineering with bio-3D printing.Interactive cardiovascular and thoracic surgery · 2018Taniguchi D, Matsumoto K, Tsuchiya T et al.DOI: 10.1093/icvts/ivx444
Quantification of bush-cricket acoustic trachea mechanics using Atomic Force Microscopy nanoindentation.Acta biomaterialia · 2022Siamantouras E, Woodrow C, Celiker E et al.DOI: 10.1016/j.actbio.2022.08.056
An ex vivo rat trachea model reveals abnormal airway physiology and a gland secretion defect in cystic fibrosis.PloS one · 2023Harris E, Easter M, Ren J et al.DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0293367
Evaluation of Biomechanical Properties and Morphometric Structures of the Trachea in Pigs and Rabbits.In vivo (Athens, Greece) · 2022Han MN, Kim JH, Choi SHDOI: 10.21873/invivo.12884
Elasticity of trachea in the silkworm: A role of gene BmMuc91C.Insect science · 2025Chen Y, Dong H, Xiao C et al.DOI: 10.1111/1744-7917.13492
Engineering Large Airways.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2023Khalid T, O'Leary CDOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-26625-6_7
In vivo and in vitro morphometry of the human trachea.Clinical anatomy (New York, N.Y.) · 2009Kamel KS, Lau G, Stringer MDDOI: 10.1002/ca.20815
Autologous tissue-engineered trachea with sheep nasal chondrocytes.The Journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery · 2002Kojima K, Bonassar LJ, Roy AK et al.DOI: 10.1067/mtc.2002.121161

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Wikidata facts

Part of: lower respiratory tract
Image: Illu conducting passages it.svg
Connects with: larynx

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Commons category: Trachea (anatomy)
topic's main category: Category:Trachea
venous drainage: brachiocephalic vein
anatomical location: cavity of bony thorax
has anatomical branch: bronchus
NCI Thesaurus ID: C12428
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Article · Italiano

La trachea è un organo dell’apparato respiratorio, la cui funzione primaria è trasferire l’aria dall’esterno ai polmoni, ripulendola e umidificandola. Morfologicamente è un condotto impari e mediano; fa parte delle vie aeree inferiori insieme alla laringe che la precede e ai bronchi che la seguono. È un viscere cavo tubulare che da C6 si espande fino a T4, dove si divide nei due bronchi principali (destro e sinistro) in un punto denominato carena, sfocianti nei rispettivi polmoni.

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