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inhalation|ɪnhəˈleɪʃən|
[n. of action f. L. inhālāre to inhale. Cf. F. inhalation (1760).]
1. The action, or an act, of inhaling or breathing in; spec. inhaling of medicines or anæsthetics in the form of gas or vapour.
1623Cockeram, Inhalation, a breathing in. 1758J. Mackenzie Health 286 Our inhalation from the circumambient air is very considerable. 1831Brewster Nat. Magic x. (1833) 256 When the inhalation is completed, or the lungs filled. 1832Lytton Eugene A. i. ii, He took an unusually long inhalation from his pipe. 1836J. M. Gully Magendie's Formul. (ed. 2) 127 Inhalation of chlorine..has also been recommended. 1869Lecky Europ. Mor. I. i. 166 The medicine of inhalation is still in its infancy. 1875Bennett & Dyer Sachs' Bot. 646 In some flowers and inflorescences the production of carbon dioxide which accompanies the inhalation of oxygen is very energetic.
2. Med. A preparation to be inhaled in the form of vapour.
1882J. C. Thorowgood in Quain's Med. Dict. 711/1 Oil of turpentine or of pinus silvestris..makes excellent stimulant inhalations in cases of dilated bronchi.
Add: inhaˈlational a. chiefly Med., of, involving, or by means of inhalation.
1944A. L. Barach (title) Principles and practice of inhalational therapy. 1961Lancet 19 Aug. 405/2 In the seriously ill, inhalational induction may be preferred. 1978Nature 27 July 339/2 In fact, surgical anaesthesia is usually maintained using inhalational anaesthetics, so that the corresponding concentrations in the gaseous phase are accurately known. 1985Brit. Med. Jrnl. 1 June 1609/1 Even with education some patients cannot acquire hand-lung coordination, and an alternative handheld inhalational device may need to be introduced. 1990N. Baker Room Temperature vii. 52 The tape-played-backward sounds that to the Western ear are characteristic of Russian speech might have inspired him to use the orchestra to simulate inhalational inversions of those traditional phrasal envelopes which build toward or retreat from a cymbal-assisted climax. |