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/ɪnəlˈeɪʃən/ /ˌɪnhəlˈeɪʃən/ Listen

Inhalation

noun

The act of inhaling; the drawing in of air (or other gases) as in breathing. Synonyms: aspiration, breathing in, inspiration, intake.

A medication to be taken by inhaling it. Synonym: inhalant.

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"Inhalation" Quotes from Famous Books

... two and five.[84] It is difficult to determine, though, whether primary infection occurred through the intestine, for, usually, other organs also become involved. In a considerable number of cases in which tubercular infection by the most common channel, inhalation, seems to be excluded, the evidence is strong that the disease was contracted through the medium of the milk, but it is always very difficult to exclude ...

— Outlines of Dairy Bacteriology, 8th edition - A Concise Manual for the Use of Students in Dairying • H. L. Russell

... the precious Egyptians, and after a first ecstatic inhalation went across to one of the long windows, which was open, and stood there with his back to the room, his face to the peaceful, fragrant night. A sudden recollection came to him of that other night a month before when he had ...

— Jason • Justus Miles Forman

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