The airway that leads from the larynx (voice box) to the bronchi (large airways that lead to the lungs). Also called trachea. Found on http://www.cancer.gov/dictionary?expand=W
Wind'pipe` noun (Anat.) The passage for the breath from the larynx to the lungs; the trachea; the weasand. See Illust. under Lung . Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/W/41