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GUIDED BY-Dr Bishrita Swain
Lecturer,department of sharira rachana(Anatomy)
PRESENTED BY-Ankita Dash
1st year BAMS student
2019-2020
TRACHEA
The word "trachea" is used to define a very different organ in invertebrates than in
vertebrates. Insects have an open respiratory system made up of spiracles, tracheae, and
tracheoles to transport metabolic gases to and from tissues.
The Trachea is also called windpipe and it is a fibrocartilaginous,noncollapseble tube that
creates the beginning.
.The trachea is a 4-4.5 inches (10-11cm)long tube.
.The diameter of trachea is 2cm in men and 1.5cm in females.
.The lumen is smaller in living human then that in cadavers.
.Its lumen is kept patient by 16-20 C shaped rings of the hyaline cartilage kept it’s lumen
patient.
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LOCATION
• The upper half of trachea lies in the neck(cervical part).
• Lower half in the superior mediastinum (thoracic part)
• Throught its whole course it is directly in front of oesophagus.
• Left recurrent laryngeal nerve lies in the groove between it &left
boarder of esophagus.
• It extent from the lower boarder of C6 to lower boarder of T4
vertebra in supine position ,where it ends by dividing into left and
right main bronchi,i.e larynx to two primary bronchi.
main carina.pdf
• As the branches approach the wall of the trachea, they split into inferior and superior
branches, which join with the branches of the arteries above and below; these then split
into branches that supply the anterior and posterior parts of the trachea.
• The lymphatic vessels of the trachea drain into the pretracheal nodes that lie in front of
the trachea, and paratracheal lymph nodes that lie beside it.
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