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Answer for the clue "What the Heimlich maneuver clears ", 6 letters:
airway

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Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context anatomy English) The trachea. 2 A flight path used by aeroplanes.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a duct that provides ventilation (as in mines) [syn: air passage , air duct ] a designated route followed by airplanes in flying from one airport to another [syn: air lane , flight path , skyway ] a commercial enterprise that provides scheduled flights ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN disease ▪ Apparently he has a history of COADs - chronic obstructive airways disease . ▪ Sacristán and colleagues refer to chronic obstructive airways disease in the context of irreversible airways obstruction, which ...

Usage examples of airway.

MARTINSBURG, West Virginia---some thirty miles northwest of Washington Route Center---a private, four-place Beech Bonanza, at seven thousand feet, was leaving Airway V166 and entering Airway V44.

I added a fourth in the soothing coolth of the Four Seasons bar while I waited for the British Airways Chicago-Montreal-London flight to be called.

He showed a series of slides and pointed out that, although the patient had been described as having been deeply and grossly cyanotic at the time of death, there was no airway obstruction.

His best drawing so far, done in ink and colored pencils and showing a cross section of the esophageal tract and the airways, was tacked to a rafter above the table.

A succession of loud, blowing noises full of gurgling came out the tracheostomy site as secretions from her lung pooled in her airway.

Neither it nor the Atlantic Airways would probably have come into existence but for Cecilia Sheldrake, who, having been forestalled in her desire to be the first woman to fly the Atlantic, had determined that at least most of the others who did so should do it by her permission.

Instead, Castillo had a drink and watched the BBC television news until an at- tractive British Airways passenger service representative came and collected him and an ornately costumed, tall, jet-black couple he thought were probably from Nigeria for no good reason except they were smiling and having a good time.

Thus we will patent the Cadbury clown fish, the British Petroleum stag coral, the Marks and Spencer moray eel, the Royal Bank of Scotland angelfish, and gliding silently overhead, the British Airways manta ray.

Examination of the airways revealed no soot deposition, and blood carboxyhemoglobin saturation was minimal.

Munich, some aboard Lufthansa, others via British Airways, Philip Cardon was driving into the resort of Berg on the Starnberger See.

The patient had been anesthetized, and a fourth-year surgical resident was cutting through the cricothyroid membrane, seeking to establish an airway without going through the nose or mouth.

The next few were from Eindhoven, three from Edinburgh, two from Aberdeen, then a British Airways flight from New York.

August afternoon in 1950 that Simon Templar uncoiled his lean seventyfour-inch frame from the seat he had occupied for interminable hours in the creaking Parnassian Airways Dakota, and stepped down on to the tarmac of Athens Airport.

Pan American flying-boat south to Recife, then Brazilian Airways dirigible to Apollonaris, just long enough to transfer to a Draka airship headed south.

The flight from Albuquerque to Gallup in the little Aspen Airways Cessna, and the drive from Gallup, had finished what reserves he had left.