RESPIRATORY TRACT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does respiratory tract mean? 

• RESPIRATORY TRACT (noun)
  The noun RESPIRATORY TRACT has 1 sense:

1. the passages through which air enters and leaves the body

  Familiarity information: RESPIRATORY TRACT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RESPIRATORY TRACT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The passages through which air enters and leaves the body

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

airway; respiratory tract

Hypernyms ("respiratory tract" is a kind of...):

tract (a system of body parts that together serve some particular purpose)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "respiratory tract"):

lower respiratory tract (the bronchi and lungs)

upper respiratory tract (the nose and throat and trachea)

Holonyms ("respiratory tract" is a part of...):

respiratory system; systema respiratorium (the system for taking in oxygen and giving off carbon dioxide; in terrestrial animals this is accomplished by breathing)

 Context examples 

C. accolens is commensal in the upper respiratory tract, but can become pathogenic and has been isolated from infected wounds.

(Corynebacterium accolens, NCI Thesaurus)

B. parapertussis is found in the respiratory tract of mammals where it usually causes a mild form of whooping cough.

(Bordetella parapertussis, NCI Thesaurus)

Dexbrompheniramine is a histamine H1-receptor antagonist that competes with histamine for the H1-receptor sites on effector cells in the gastrointestinal tract, blood vessels and respiratory tract.

(Dexbrompheniramine, NCI Thesaurus)

Exposure to this substance results in severe irritation to the eyes, skin and respiratory tract.

(Diethyl Sulfate, NCI Thesaurus)

E. corrodens is generally classified as a commensal organism of the mouth and upper respiratory tract but may cause disease in patients with cancer.

(Eikenella corrodens, NCI Thesaurus)

Exposure to nitrofen irritates the skin, eyes and respiratory tract and affects the blood and central nervous system.

(Nitrofen, NCI Thesaurus)

Exposure to Nitrilotriacetic acid irritates the skin, eyes and respiratory tract and causes kidney and bladder damage.

(Nitrilotriacetic Acid, NCI Thesaurus)

It occurs in the parotid gland, submandibular gland, minor salivary glands in the oral cavity, upper respiratory tract, and nasal cavity and paranasal sinuses.

(Pleomorphic Adenoma, NCI Thesaurus)

A structure of special sense serving as an organ of the sense of smell and as an entrance to the respiratory tract.

(Nose, NCI Thesaurus)

Flu infection in mammals starts when an influenza virus protein called hemagglutinin binds to sialic acid (SA) molecules on the tops of chain-like proteins that thickly line tissue throughout the respiratory tract.

(Researchers find role for soft palate in adaptation of transmissible influenza viruses, NIH)