Sentence examples for inhalant from inspiring English sources
noun
Something, especially a medication, that is inhaled
Budesonide is an inhaled glucocorticoid sold under the brand name Pulmicort; nedocromil is a nonsteroidal inhalant no longer available in the United States.
The mantle margin can be fused at various places leaving medial apertures anteriorly for the extension and retraction of the locomotory foot and, in most bivalves, posteriorly to create inhalant and exhalant apertures that may be formed into siphons of variable length according to habitat.
Prey is captured either in the sudden rush of water into the mantle cavity or by the rapid eversion of the inhalant siphon.
Modern inhalant anesthetics are given in carefully measured doses through endotracheal tubes, usually following premedication with injectable drugs, such as sedatives or analgesic agents, to reduce patient anxiety and ease induction of anesthesia.
Anesthesia, also spelled anaesthesia, loss of physical sensation, with or without loss of consciousness, as artificially induced by the administration of drugs, inhalant gases, or other agents.
"I initially thought the bitter-tasting receptors in the lungs would prompt a 'fight or flight' response to a noxious inhalant, causing chest tightness and coughing so you leave a toxic environment, but that's not what we found," Professor Liggett said.
Michael Shannon, the director of the Children's Hospital Boston emergency room and an expert on pediatric toxicology, told me, "We don't know the safe limits of dose and frequency of modern inhaled asthma drugs like albuterol, and so when we give children inhalants we sometimes make them sick".
'Citizen Ruth" follows an inhalant-loving deadbeat who, when she learns she is pregnant, pinballs between both sides of the abortion debate.
Even where injectable vaccines are available, inhalants are often more desirable.
Identification of allergens is made by studying both the site of symptoms (e.g., inhalants such as molds, pollens, and dander usually affect the eyes, nose, and bronchi; cosmetics often affect the skin of the face and hands) and the time that symptoms appear (e.g., seasonal allergy to pollen).
Its chief use is medical, and it constitutes an active ingredient in expectorants and inhalants.
