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Inhalation   /ɪnəlˈeɪʃən/  /ˌɪnhəlˈeɪʃən/   Listen
noun
Inhalation  n.  The act of inhaling; also, that which is inhaled.






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"Inhalation" Quotes from Famous Books



... impossible to generate sufficient ozone by this plan for the large application that would be required should it come into general use. The process deserves to be remembered, and the physician may find it valuable as a means by which ozone may be medically applied, to wounds, or by inhalation when there are foetid exhalations from the ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 717, September 28, 1889 • Various

... antiseptic gargles are indicated. Later, when the patient is unable to gargle, the inhalation of steam impregnated with the vapour of carbolic acid or friar's balsam, and the application of hot fomentations or a large linseed poultice to the neck may afford relief. When an abscess is formed, it should be opened by means of a fine-pointed ...
— Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities--Head--Neck. Sixth Edition. • Alexander Miles

... of saintliness. By the latter we are not to understand merely the aspiration after virtue or after a lofty ideal, still pursued and still eluding, but to a certain extent the embodiment of this ideal in the life—virtue become a normal experience like the inhalation and exhalation of breath! Moreover, the spiritually-minded seem always to be possessed of a great secret. This air of interior knowledge, of the perception of that which is hidden from the uninitiated, is a common mark of all ...
— The Essentials of Spirituality • Felix Adler

... by hydrocyanic acid, cyanide of potassium, inhalation of carbonic acid or coal gas, oedema of ...
— Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology • W. G. Aitchison Robertson

... blush it appears, judging from their bright eyes and lively behaviour, that their mental powers are somewhat stimulated. It is only when the blushing is excessive that the mind grows confused. Therefore it would seem that the capillaries of the face are affected, both during the inhalation of the nitrite of amyl and during blushing, before that part of the brain is affected on which the ...
— The Expression of Emotion in Man and Animals • Charles Darwin


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