Gr. tracheia = rough. Tracheia bears the feminine ending to agree with arteria. The greeks believed that arteries contained air; Aristotle called the arteries smooth, while he named the windpipe “rough artery”.
Gr. tracheia = rough. Tracheia bears the feminine ending to agree with arteria. The greeks believed that arteries contained air; Aristotle called the arteries smooth, while he named the windpipe “rough artery”.