{"id":1422,"date":"2016-05-01T17:02:45","date_gmt":"2016-05-02T00:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/?p=1422"},"modified":"2016-05-01T17:02:45","modified_gmt":"2016-05-02T00:02:45","slug":"trachea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/2016\/05\/01\/trachea\/","title":{"rendered":"Trachea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The trachea is also called the windpipe and it connects the mouth to the lungs. \u00a0 It is distinguished from the nearby esophagus by the presence of cartilage rings which prevent the airway from collapsing. \u00a0 At the top of the trachea is the larynx, or the voicebox.<\/p>\n<p>The photo below shows a comparison between the visual appearance of the trachea and the esophagus, which is flexible soft tissue. \u00a0The esophagus usually lies to the side or behind the trachea.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/trachea-esophagus-labeled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1423\" src=\"http:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/trachea-esophagus-labeled.jpg\" alt=\"trachea-esophagus-labeled\" width=\"900\" height=\"743\" srcset=\"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/trachea-esophagus-labeled.jpg 900w, https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/trachea-esophagus-labeled-250x206.jpg 250w, https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/trachea-esophagus-labeled-500x413.jpg 500w, https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/trachea-esophagus-labeled-768x634.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The trachea is also called the windpipe and it connects the mouth to the lungs. \u00a0 It is distinguished from the nearby esophagus by the presence of cartilage rings which prevent the airway from collapsing. \u00a0 At the top of the trachea is the larynx, or the voicebox. The photo below shows a comparison between the visual appearance of the trachea and the esophagus, which is flexible soft tissue. \u00a0The esophagus usually lies to the side or behind the trachea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1423,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[144,40,275,286,71,287],"class_list":["post-1422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anatomical","tag-cartilage","tag-esophagus","tag-larynx","tag-rings","tag-trachea","tag-windpipe","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1422"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1424,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1422\/revisions\/1424"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}