Word Meanings - LARYNGOTRACHEAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Pertaining to both larynx and trachea; as, the laryngotracheal cartilage in the frog.

Related words: (words related to LARYNGOTRACHEAL)

• TRACHEA
  The windpipe. See Illust. of Lung.
• CARTILAGE
  A translucent, elastic tissue; gristle. Note: Cartilage contains no vessels, and consists of a homogeneous, intercellular matrix, in which there are numerous minute cavities, or capsules, containing protoplasmic cells, the cartilage corpuscul. See
• TRACHEARY
  Tracheal; breathing by means of tracheæ. -- n.
• LARYNGOTRACHEAL
  Pertaining to both larynx and trachea; as, the laryngotracheal cartilage in the frog.
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• TRACHEATE
  Breathing by means of tracheæ; of or pertaining to the Tracheata.
• TRACHEARIA
  A division of Arachnida including those that breathe only by means of tracheæ. It includes the mites, ticks, false scorpions, and harvestmen.
• TRACHEATA
  An extensive division of arthropods comprising all those which breathe by tracheæ, as distinguished from Crustacea, which breathe by means of branchiæ.
• LARYNX
  The expanded upper end of the windpipe or trachea, connected with the hyoid bone or cartilage. It contains the vocal cords, which produce the voice by their vibrations, when they are stretched and a current of air passes between them. The larynx
• TRACHEAL
  Of or pertaining to the trachea; like a trachea.
• FIBROCARTILAGE
  A kind of cartilage with a fibrous matrix and approaching fibrous connective tissue in structure. -- Fi`bro*car`ti*lag"i*nous, a.
• PERITRACHEAL
  Surrounding the tracheæ.
• PROTOTRACHEATA
  See MALACOPODA
• PROTRACHEATA
  See MALACOPODA
• APPERTAIN
  To belong or pertain, whether by right, nature, appointment, or custom; to relate. Things appertaining to this life. Hooker. Give it unto him to whom it appertaineth. Lev. vi. 5. (more info) appartenir, fr. L. appertinere; ad + pertinere to reach