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UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The nose and throat and trachea
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("upper respiratory tract" is a kind of...):
airway; respiratory tract (the passages through which air enters and leaves the body)
Meronyms (parts of "upper respiratory tract"):
nasal cavity (either of the two cavities lying between the floor of the cranium and the roof of the mouth and extending from the face to the pharynx)
larynx; voice box (a cartilaginous structure at the top of the trachea; contains elastic vocal cords that are the source of the vocal tone in speech)
trachea; windpipe (membranous tube with cartilaginous rings that conveys inhaled air from the larynx to the bronchi)
pharynx; throat (the passage to the stomach and lungs; in the front part of the neck below the chin and above the collarbone)
nose; olfactory organ (the organ of smell and entrance to the respiratory tract; the prominent part of the face of man or other mammals)
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)
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)
K. dentrificans is a commensal organism found in the upper respiratory tract and while it is thought to be mostly nonpathogenic, it has been associated with at least one case of infective endocarditis.
(Kingella denitrificans, NCI Thesaurus)
Anatomic structures forming the upper respiratory tract and upper part of the digestive tract.
(Aerodigestive tract, NCI Thesaurus)
Flu viruses adapted to humans and other mammals bind preferentially to a type of SA called alpha 2,6 SA (α2,6 SA), which is the predominant form found in the upper respiratory tract of mammals.
(Researchers find role for soft palate in adaptation of transmissible influenza viruses, NIH)
A species of gram-negative, aerobic, oxidase-positive diplococcus bacteria within the phylum Proteobacteria that causes upper respiratory tract infections, particularly in immunocompromised hosts.
(Moraxella catarrhalis, NCI Thesaurus)
M. lacunata is a commensal organism of the human upper respiratory tract and most commonly associated with eye infections, but has been reported to cause rare invasive infections in humans, including endocarditis, septic arthritis, cellulitis, meningitis, bacteremia and purulent pericarditis.
(Moraxella lacunata, NCI Thesaurus)
