PASSAGEWAY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does passageway mean? 

• PASSAGEWAY (noun)
  The noun PASSAGEWAY has 2 senses:

1. a passage between rooms or between buildings

2. a path or channel or duct through or along which something may pass

  Familiarity information: PASSAGEWAY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PASSAGEWAY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A passage between rooms or between buildings

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("passageway" is a kind of...):

passage (a way through or along which someone or something may pass)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "passageway"):

arcade (a covered passageway with shops and stalls on either side)

areaway (a passageway between buildings or giving access to a basement)

corridor (an enclosed passageway; rooms usually open onto it)

drift; gallery; heading (a horizontal (or nearly horizontal) passageway in a mine)

gangway (a temporary passageway of planks (as over mud on a building site))

gate (passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark)

shaft (a vertical passageway through a building (as for an elevator))

tunnel (a passageway through or under something, usually underground (especially one for trains or cars))

walk-through (a pedestrian passageway through the ground floor of a building)

aisle; gangway (passageway between seating areas as in an auditorium or passenger vehicle or between areas of shelves of goods as in stores)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A path or channel or duct through or along which something may pass

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

passage; passageway

Context example:

the nasal passages

Hypernyms ("passageway" is a kind of...):

anatomical structure; bodily structure; body structure; complex body part; structure (a particular complex anatomical part of a living thing and its construction and arrangement)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "passageway"):

shunt (a passage by which a bodily fluid (especially blood) is diverted from one channel to another)

fistula; sinus (an abnormal passage leading from a suppurating cavity to the body surface)

fauces (the passage between the back of the mouth and the pharynx)

epicardia (the short part of the esophagus extending downward from the diaphragm to the stomach)

esophagus; gorge; gullet; oesophagus (the passage between the pharynx and the stomach)

root canal (the passage in the root of a tooth through which its nerve and blood vessels enter the pulp cavity)

carpal tunnel (a passageway in the wrist through which nerves and the flexor muscles of the hands pass)

sinusoid (tiny endothelium-lined passages for blood in the tissue of an organ)

canal; channel; duct; epithelial duct (a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance)

opening; orifice; porta (an aperture or hole that opens into a bodily cavity)

meatus (a natural body passageway)

birth canal (a passage in the uterus and vagina through which a fetus passes during vaginal birth)

 Context examples 

The doctor moves it through a body passageway or opening to see inside an organ.

(Endoscopy, NIH)

Blockage of the normal flow of the contents of an anatomical passageway.

(Obstruction, NCI Thesaurus)

Bile ducts are passageways that carry bile.

(Common bile duct, NCI Thesaurus)

The doctor moves it through a body passageway or opening to see inside a particular organ, such as your heart, lungs, or colon.

(Diagnostic Imaging, NIH)

The nasal cavity is the passageway just behind your nose.

(Nasal Cancer, NIH: National Cancer Institute)

A chronic respiratory disease manifested as difficulty breathing due to the narrowing of bronchial passageways.

(Asthma, NCI Thesaurus)

Obstruction or a closure of hollow organ, passageway or vessel; also the transient approximation of the edges of a natural opening; imperforation.

(Occlusion, NCI Thesaurus)

The secretions of exocrine glands are abnormal, resulting in excessively viscid mucus production which causes obstruction of passageways (including pancreatic and bile ducts, intestines, and bronchi).

(Cystic Fibrosis, NCI Thesaurus)

The removal of a previously inserted tube from a hollow organ or passageway, often from the airway.

(Extubation, NCI Thesaurus)

The carpal tunnel is a narrow passageway of ligament and bones at the base of your hand.

(Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, NIH: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)