MICROANATOMY

Detailed explanation-1: -The trachea is the tube that connects your voice box with your bronchi in your lungs. It’s a key part of the system that helps you breathe. Your trachea is made of thick rings of cartilage.

Detailed explanation-2: -The trachea (windpipe) is made up of cartilages (also called tracheal rings). Normally tracheal rings are “C” shaped.

Detailed explanation-3: -The cartilage of the trachea is considered hyaline cartilage: simple, transparent, and made primarily of collagen. The trachealis muscle connects the open ends of the C-shaped rings of cartilage and contracts during coughing, reducing the size of the lumen of the trachea to increase the air flow rate.

Detailed explanation-4: -Also called trachea. Enlarge. Anatomy of the respiratory system showing the trachea, the right and left lungs and their lobes, and the bronchi.

Detailed explanation-5: -In the trachea, or windpipe, there are tracheal rings, also known as tracheal cartilages.