Advertisement
Advertisement
airway
[ air-wey ]
noun
- an air route equipped with emergency landing fields, beacon lights, radio beams, etc.
- a passageway by which air passes from the nose or mouth to the air sacs of the lungs.
- Medicine/Medical. a tubelike device used to maintain adequate, unobstructed respiration, as during general anesthesia.
- any passage in a mine used for purposes of ventilation; an air course.
- airways,
- the band of frequencies, taken collectively, used by radio broadcasting stations:
The news was sent out over the airways immediately.
airway
/ ˈɛəˌɱɪ /
noun
- an air route, esp one that is fully equipped with emergency landing fields, navigational aids, etc
- a passage for ventilation, esp in a mine
- a passage down which air travels from the nose or mouth to the lungs
- med a tubelike device inserted via the throat to keep open the airway of an unconscious patient
Example Sentences
Procedures to remove foreign objects, including coins, from children's throats, airways and noses saw a "significant decline", of almost 700 cases by 2022.
The charity says young babies do not have strong necks and cannot lift their heads, meaning that their airway "can easily be blocked" in baby slings and carriers.
"Your airways close up, you start coughing," says the chair of the Royal College of GPs, Kamila Hawthorne.
On Dec. 19, the actor had undergone a bronchoscopy — a procedure that allows doctors to examine airways in the lungs.
Lawyers for the condemned argued that “pentobarbital caused flash pulmonary edema, in which fluid rushes through quickly disintegrating membranes into lungs and airways, causing pain akin to being suffocated or drowned.”
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Browse