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airway

noun as in air pipe

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It can be fatal if, for example, the person’s airway swells shut, though deaths are rare.

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Rush’s preteen daughter suffered from asthma and had to sleep with a continuous positive airway pressure machine, commonly known as a CPAP.

With covid-19, the virus attaches to a receptor called ACE-2, which is common on airway and lung cells—the reason the disease causes problems with breathing.

Place your tongue on the roof of your mouth, which opens your airway and allows you to bring more air into your lungs, Almeyda explains.

Birds and people have different types of this protein in their upper airway, but pigs have both.

This strain of enterovirus seems unusually provocative in irritating lower airways, thereby causing airway narrowing.

Snoring is a sign of obstructive sleep apnea, when your airway collapses or becomes blocked during sleep.

We cant get out this way, said Tom; well have to go up through the airway.

Then, with a glance at the sleeping boy, Come ye up the airway a bit.

If you are unable to obtain an effective airway, then the other procedures are to be of no avail.

The cuff is a small latex cuff which should prevent leakage of air around the tube, thus insuring an adequate airway.

This is a plastic tube which is inserted into the trachea, into the windpipe, to allow an adequate airway, adequate breathing.

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On this page you'll find 3 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to airway, such as: air passage, and air shaft.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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