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Inhalation

Inhalation \In`ha*la"tion\, n. [Cf. F. inhalation.] The act of inhaling; also, that which is inhaled.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
inhalation

1620s, noun of action from past participle stem of Latin inhalare (see inhale).

Wiktionary
inhalation

n. 1 The act of inhale. 2 The substance (medicament) which is inhaled.

WordNet
inhalation
  1. n. the act of inhaling; the drawing in of air (or other gases) as in breathing [syn: inspiration, aspiration, breathing in]

  2. a medication to be taken by inhaling it [syn: inhalant]

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Inhalation

Inhalation (also known as inspiration) is the drawing in of a substance into the lungs.

Usage examples of "inhalation".

Iodine inhalations, administered with the pocket inhaler, illustrated by Fig.

Inhalations of chloride of ammonia, administered with a steam-atomizer, Fig.

PM on Albacore showed death from smoke inhalation, but it also mentioned some possible damage to the back of his head.

Inhalation of the vapor of anhydrous prussic will cause immediate death--so quickly, it is said, that scarcely any symptoms can be observed.

In France continuous inhalations of Peppermint oil combined with creasote and glycerine, have become used most successfully, even when cavities exist in the lungs, with copious bacillary expectoration.

Like Rachel, Tom smokes not in the hammily clandestine manner of adolescents, that huffing and crouching and voice-squeezing which Dylan privately despises, but grandly, legs crossed, waving a joint and talking uninterruptedly through inhalations, unmindful of conserving the smoke.

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Back in her office, he took a deep inhalation of a bunch of scantiom and raige on the window sill to cleanse the stench in his nostrils.

We had relied on our current textbook understanding of the disease: inhalational anthrax disease does not occur unless there is direct inhalation of more than ten thousand spores.

To overcome the modified form of inflammation in the bronchial tubes, all sources of irritation should be avoided, as the inhalation of dust, or excessively cold air.

Inhalations, administered by means of the most approved apparatus, are employed with advantage in many obstinate lung, bronchial, and throat affections.

For the time being, the longing for refinement seemed reduced to the passionate inhalations of that divine, fair rose of love which was Madame Steno, a rose almost too full-blown, and which the autumn of forty years had begun to fade.

Ritter moved in with a vibra-scalpel, cutting through the thick felt mat of nutrient tubing with a touch so delicate the silvery amniotic sac beneath was unscored, then cut Miles free of his last bit of biological packaging, clearing his mouth and nose of fluids before his first surprised inhalation.

The body possessed a bellows mechanism for the inhalation and exhalation of air, for which the amoebic body had a need similar to that of the human body.

Billy shifted the corpse sideways on the toilet, the head fell forward, and a gaseous sputter escaped the lips, as if Cottle had died on an inhalation, as if his last breath, until now, had been trapped in his throat.