Wiktionary
a. (context of an anesthetic English) Administered as a gas or vapour that is inhaled
Usage examples of "inhalational".
G procaine, and doxycycline are approved for preventive treatment following inhalational exposure to anthrax spores.
Monday As I prepared to host the bioterrorism roundtable in Nashville, a Florida man already had died of inhalational anthrax, and an assistant to NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw had been diagnosed with skin, or cutaneous, anthrax.
Everyone wanted to know more about skin and inhalational anthrax, and the initial TV news reports by political figures and health officials were confusing.
We had to reexamine our assumptions about anthrax--about the likelihood of contracting inhalational anthrax compared to cutaneous anthrax, about the relative risk to those who had little or no contact with the actual anthrax-laced letter, and about the best ways to diagnose and treat those with the disease.
Experts believe that the average lethal dose for inhalational anthrax is ten thousand spores, although in view of the recent postal attacks, we now believe that a smaller number can be fatal, especially for the elderly and those with a weakened immune system.
In the inhalational anthrax cases following September 11, the average time from exposure to the bacteria to the onset of symptoms was four days.
About half of those with the inhalational form of the disease develop anthrax meningitis if untreated.
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.
Children breathe faster than adults, which would potentially place them at greater risk for inhalational agents.
It was thought before the postal attacks that inhalational anthrax would be fatal in 80 to 95 percent of cases.
In the last century, only 18 cases of inhalational anthrax--the most deadly form of the disease--were reported in this country.
Two of those cases were related to laboratory work, and not a single inhalational case was reported in the twenty-five years leading up to September 11, 2001.
How do I tell the difference between the flu and inhalational anthrax?
Also, the CDC recommends that at least two different antibiotics be used to treat inhalational anthrax.
Antibiotics also can be used to prevent illness after inhalational exposure to anthrax spores.