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AIRWAY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A commercial enterprise that provides scheduled flights for passengers
Synonyms:
airline; airline business; airway
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("airway" is a kind of...):
line (a commercial organization serving as a common carrier)
Meronyms (parts of "airway"):
fleet (group of aircraft operating together under the same ownership)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A duct that provides ventilation (as in mines)
Synonyms:
air duct; air passage; airway
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("airway" is a kind of...):
duct (an enclosed conduit for a fluid)
Meronyms (parts of "airway"):
blowhole; vent; vent-hole; venthole (a hole for the escape of gas or air)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "airway"):
register (an air passage (usually in the floor or a wall of a room) for admitting or excluding heated air from the room)
breather; schnorchel; schnorkel; snorkel; snorkel breather (air passage provided by a retractable device containing intake and exhaust pipes; permits a submarine to stay submerged for extended periods of time)
upcast (air passage consisting of a ventilation shaft through which air leaves a mine)
ventilation shaft (a shaft in a building; serves as an air passage for ventilation)
Sense 3
Meaning:
The passages through which air enters and leaves the body
Synonyms:
airway; respiratory tract
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("airway" is a kind of...):
tract (a system of body parts that together serve some particular purpose)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "airway"):
lower respiratory tract (the bronchi and lungs)
upper respiratory tract (the nose and throat and trachea)
Holonyms ("airway" is a part of...):
respiratory system; systema respiratorium (the system for taking in oxygen and giving off carbon dioxide; in terrestrial animals this is accomplished by breathing)
Sense 4
Meaning:
A designated route followed by airplanes in flying from one airport to another
Synonyms:
air lane; airway; flight path; skyway
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("airway" is a kind of...):
itinerary; path; route (an established line of travel or access)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "airway"):
approach; approach path; glide path; glide slope (the final path followed by an aircraft as it is landing)
holding pattern (the flight path (usually circular) maintained by an aircraft that is awaiting permission to land)
Context examples:
Montelukast blocks the action of a substance that causes airways in the lungs to narrow and causes other symptoms of asthma.
(Montelukast, NCI Dictionary)
An anatomically narrow airway from body habitus or enlarged pharyngeal structures may also predispose to obstruction.
(Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)
It is due to upper airway obstruction.
(Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
A disorder characterized by a narrowing of the pharyngeal airway.
(Pharyngeal Stenosis, NCI Thesaurus/CTCAE)
A more than normal amount of thick mucus made by the cells lining the upper airways and lungs.
(Phlegm, NCI Dictionary)
As a result, nedocromil sodium inhibits both immediate and late bronchoconstriction, decreases bronchial hyperresponsiveness and inhibits recruitment of other inflammatory cells into the airway epithelium.
(Nedocromil Calcium, NCI Thesaurus)
Montelukast sodium blocks the action of a substance that causes airways in the lungs to narrow and causes other symptoms of asthma.
(Montelukast sodium, NCI Dictionary)
M. canis is an upper-airway commensal of dogs and cats and is considered nonpathogenic in humans.
(Moraxella canis, NCI Thesaurus)
A device for administration of medicinal substance(s) in form of a liquid mist to the patient airways.
(Nebulizer, NCI Thesaurus)
Airway Questionnaire 20 (AQ20) Do you have a feeling of chest heaviness?
(AQ20 - Feeling of Chest Heaviness, NCI Thesaurus)
