Word Meanings - PERITRACHEAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Surrounding the tracheæ.

Related words: (words related to PERITRACHEAL)

• TRACHEA
  The windpipe. See Illust. of Lung.
• TRACHELORRHAPHY
  The operation of sewing up a laceration of the neck of the uterus.
• TRACHENCHYMA
  A vegetable tissue consisting of tracheæ.
• TRACHELIPOD
  One of the Trachelipoda.
• TRACHELIDAN
  Any one of a tribe of beetles which have the head supported on a pedicel. The oil beetles and the Cantharides are examples.
• TRACHEITIS
  Inflammation of the trachea, or windpipe.
• TRACHEARY
  Tracheal; breathing by means of tracheæ. -- n.
• SURROUNDING
  Inclosing; encircling.
• TRACHEOSCOPY
  Examination of the interior of the trachea by means of a mirror.
• TRACHELIPODA
  An extensive artificial group of gastropods comprising all those which have a spiral shell and the foot attached to the base of the neck.
• TRACHEOBRANCHIA
  One of the gill-like breathing organs of certain aquatic insect larvæ. They contain tracheal tubes somewhat similar to those of other insects.
• TRACHEATE
  Breathing by means of tracheæ; of or pertaining to the Tracheata.
• SURROUND
  To inclose, as a body of troops, between hostile forces, so as to cut off means of communication or retreat; to invest, as a city. Syn. -- To encompass; encircle; environ; invest; hem in; fence about. (more info) L. super over + undare to rise
• TRACHEARIA
  A division of Arachnida including those that breathe only by means of tracheæ. It includes the mites, ticks, false scorpions, and harvestmen.
• TRACHELIPODOUS
  Having the foot united with the neck; of or pertainingto the Trachelipoda.
• TRACHEATA
  An extensive division of arthropods comprising all those which breathe by tracheæ, as distinguished from Crustacea, which breathe by means of branchiæ.
• TRACHEOPHONAE
  A group of passerine birds having the syrinx at the lower end of the trachea.
• TRACHEOTOMY
  The operation of making an opening into the windpipe.
• TRACHEOCELE
  Goiter. A tumor containing air and communicating with the trachea. Morell Mackenzie.
• TRACHELOBRANCHIATE
  Having the gills situated upon the neck; -- said of certain mollusks.
• LARYNGOTRACHEAL
  Pertaining to both larynx and trachea; as, the laryngotracheal cartilage in the frog.
• LARYNGOTRACHEOTOMY
  The operation of cutting into the larynx and the upper part of the trachea, -- a frequent operation for obstruction to breathing.
• HYPOTRACHELIUM
  See GORGERIN