For population 25 years and over in Brookside Village: 1  High school or higher: 85.1%. 2  Bachelor's degree or higher: 19.2%. 3  Graduate or professional degree: 3.4%. 4  Unemployed: 6.6%.
airway. 1  an air route equipped with emergency landing fields, beacon lights, radio beams, etc. 2  a passageway by which air passes from the nose or mouth to the air sacs of the lungs. 3  Medicine/Medical. a tubelike device used to maintain adequate, unobstructed respiration, as during general anesthesia.
The path that air takes from the nose through the throat down into the lungs is called the airway. The tonsils and adenoids form a ring of tissue in the back of the throat. If the tonsils and adenoids are large, they narrow the airway and reduce the flow of air into and out of the lungs.