The Throat And Its Functions in Swallowing, Breathing And the Production of the Voice. ... Illus
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iv, a, a), two, unite to form respectively the right bronchus, which is about the fourth of an inch in diameter and about an inch in length, and the left bronchus, which is nar- rower than the right, but about twice its length. The trachea or windpipe (weasand), is a cylindroid tube, (see Fig. iv) cylindrical in front and on the sides and flat be- hind (see Fig vii), about four inches long, from three-fourths to an inch in breadth, and one-half to three-quarters of an inch in depth. It is compo...sed of a series of incomplete cartilagi- nous rings, varying irregularly from sixteen to twenty in number, connected by a fibro-elastic membrane, and is lined with a mucous membrane continuous above with the lining of the larynx and below with that of the bronchial tubes. The cartilaginous rings are somewhat horse-shoe shaped, because 28 THE THROAT AND ITS FUNCTIONS. they are imperfect at their posterior third, which gives a sec- tion of the tube the tunnel-shaped appearance seen in Fig, vii. The posterior interval of the cartilaginous rings is occupied by a loose fibrous membrane and an internal layer of pale, unstri- ated muscular fibres in a transverse direction.
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