The tube in your neck that carries air to and from your lungs. Its scientific name is the trachea.
A straightforward English compound of 'wind' (air) and 'pipe' (tube). It names the body part by what it carries and what it looks like.
Before scientific Latin names became common, English speakers described body parts like tools—'windpipe' is just an air-tube. The everyday name is often more vivid than the medical one.
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