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The body's most non-negotiable hallway, where every breath checks in before anything else matters.
means The passage from your nose and mouth down through the throat and windpipe that carries air to your lungs.
from Plain English compound of air plus way, a route for breath, first used literally for mine ventilation shafts in the 1800s.
First in ABCEmergency care fixes airway before breathing or circulation.
Mine originsOriginally meant ventilation tunnels, not human anatomy.
Tiny marginBlockage kills in minutes, faster than blood loss.