inhalatoriumn.
/ɪnheɪləˈtɔːrɪəm/ Medicine.
A building or room used for the treatment of respiratory complaints by vaporized medicaments.
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1906 Chambers's Jrnl. 347/2 In the medical institute called the Inhalatorium special rooms are set apart for the use of patients, who sit for half-an-hour at a time breathing an atmosphere charged with the vapour suited to their special complaints.
1912 World 7 May 697/1 The inhalatoria and gurgling-rooms.
1966 Punch 2 Feb. 161/2 So heigh-ho for the tap-room, the ambulatory, the graduated walks, the grandiose inhalatorium.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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