inhaler

noun

Etymology

From inhale + -er.

Definitions

  1. One who inhales.

    • The exposure of the mouse lungs to smoke was, of course, relatively mild as compared with the exposure of the lungs of a human smoke-inhaler who gets true cancer.
  2. A device with a canister holding medicine (either in powder or gas form) which is sprayed…

    A device with a canister holding medicine (either in powder or gas form) which is sprayed and inhaled by the patient, often for treating asthma and other respiratory diseases.

    • Gay peep shows -- adult magazines, movies, locker room, inhalers.
    • For years he'd made relatively light of it, referring to the little inhaler he had to use as his ‘puffer’.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for inhaler. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA