venturi

/vɛnˈtjʊəɹi/
noun 3name 1

Definitions

noun

1

A venturi tube.

2

The throat of a carburetor.

3

A constriction in the flow of air to lungs.

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.

name

1

A surname from Italian.

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