respiratory tract

1. 1.

   the passages through which air enters and leaves the body

   Synonymsairway

   Broadertract

   Narrowerlower respiratory tractupper respiratory tract

   Part ofrespiratory system

Questions about respiratory tract

What does respiratory tract mean?

respiratory tract means "the passages through which air enters and leaves the body".

What is another word for respiratory tract?

Close synonyms include airway. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is respiratory tract a common word?

respiratory tract is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.