Tags: Anatomical Structure.

The trachea or windpipe is a tube that connects the pharynx and larynx to the lungs allowing the passage of air and so is present in all air-breathing animals with lungs. Only in the lungfish where the lung is connected to the pharynx and the trachea is absent.

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