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plural venturis or venturi
A venturi tube. examples
The throat of a carburetor. examples
(rare, pathology) A constriction in the flow of air to lungs. quotations
He’s at the age where mucus is a daily companion, a culture of mucus among the old, mucus in a thousand manifestations, appearing in clots by total surprise on a friend’s tablecloth, rimming his breath-passages at night in hard venturi, enough to darken the outlines of dreams and send him awake, pleading.
1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow