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The act of inhaling; also, that which is inhaled.

y volatile liquid, C5H11NO2, used in medicine as a heart stimulant and a vasodilator. The inhalation of its vapor instantly produces flushing of the face.

ing or sensation; a state of general or local insensibility produced by disease or by the inhalation or application of an anæsthetic.

A chronic lung disease, common among coal miners, due to the inhalation of coal dust; -- called also collier's lung and miner's phthisis.

ion which results from interruption of respiration, as in suffocation or drowning, or the inhalation of irrespirable gases.

Treatment of disease by vapors or gases, as by inhalation.

To take into the lungs; to inhale; to inspire; hence, also, to utter or produce by an inhalation; to heave. "Where I first drew air." Milton. Drew, or seemed to draw, a dying groan. Dryden.

To render insensible by means of ether, as by inhalation; as, to etherize a patient.

, a yellow oily volatile liquid, used in medicine as a depressant and a vaso-dilator. Its inhalation produces an instantaneous flushing of the face.

The treatment of disease by inhalations of compressed or rarefied air.

A divice of gauze or wire, covering the mouth or nose, to prevent the inhalation of noxious substances, as dust or smoke. Being warmed by the breath, it tempers cold air passing through it, and may also be used for the inhalation of medicated vapors.

ose beetle (a). -- Rose cold (Med.), a variety of hay fever, sometimes attributed to the inhalation of the effluvia of roses. See Hay fever, under Hay. -- Rose color, the color of a rose; pink; hence, a beautiful hue or appearance; fancied beauty, attractiveness, or promise.

A sort of pneumonia occuring in iron workers, produced by the inhalation of particles of iron.