pretracheal
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Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /pɹiːˈtɹeɪ.ki.əl/, /ˌpɹiː.tɹəˈkiː.əl/
- (General American) IPA(key): /pɹiˈtɹeɪ.ki.əl/
- Rhymes: -eɪkiəl, -iːəl
Adjective edit
pretracheal (not comparable)
- (anatomy, relational) Anterior to the trachea.
- 2015 October 3, Wei Sun, Xiabin Lan, Hao Zhang, Wenwu Dong, Zhihong Wang, Liang He, Ting Zhang, Siming Liu, “Risk Factors for Central Lymph Node Metastasis in CN0 Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis”, in PLOS One[1], volume 10, number 10, :
- Central lymph nodes were divided into three or four subgroups in some articles: ipsilateral paratracheal, pretracheal, contralateral paratracheal, and prelaryngeal.
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References edit
- “pretracheal”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.