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irrespirable, a.|ɪrɪˈspaɪərəb(ə)l, ɪˈrɛspɪrəb(ə)l|
[f. ir-2 + respirable, or a. F. irrespirable (1779 in Hatz.–Darm.), ad. late L. irrespīrābil-is (Tert.), f. ir- (ir-2) + respīrā-re to respire: see -able.]
Not respirable; unfit for respiration.
1822–34Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) III. 421 Produced by inhaling carbonic-acid or some other irrespirable exhalation. 1836Macgillivray tr. Humboldt's Trav. xxviii. 410 The mud-volcanoes of South America, Italy, and the Caspian Sea, which..vomit muddy clay, naphtha, and irrespirable gases. 1876Foster Phys. ii. ii. (1879) 355 Some gases are irrespirable, on account of their causing spasm of the glottis. |