Inhalation Sentence Examples

Oxygen is also administered in chloroform poisoning, and in threatened death from the inhalation of coal gas or nitrous oxides.

The inhalation of the fumes of nascent ammonium chloride by filling the room with the gas has been recommended in foetid bronchitis.

He was to discover later that they had died of smoke inhalation.

Acute irritant symptoms from the inhalation of ETS are common, the most frequent being eye irritation.

With the exception of adult patients receiving nitrous oxide / oxygen inhalation sedation, an escort is mandatory for conscious sedation.

Inhalation of 2 to 4 mg of reactor-grade plutonium may cause death within about a month from pulmonary fibrosis or pulmonary edema.

The committee agreed to reconsider the topic of the relative carcinogenic potency of PAHs by the inhalation route of exposure at a future meeting.

During labor, gastric stasis, associated with the use of opioid analgesics, may increase the mother's risk of inhalation pneumonia.

Several clinical trials have supported these claims, indicating that oral THC or inhalation of cannabis smoke can relieve muscle pain and spasticity.

Gum benzoin, which contains from 12 to 20% of benzoic acid, is used in medicine as the essential constituent of benzoated lard, Adeps benzoatus, which owes its antiseptic properties to benzoic acid; and in friar's balsam, Tinctura benzoini composita, which is an ancient and valuable medicament, still largely used for inhalation in cases of laryngitis, bronchitis and other inflammatory or actually septic conditions of the respiratory tract.

Repeated or prolonged inhalation of excessive concentration of respirable fibers may cause permanent lung injury [4 ].

He died of smoke inhalation from a kitchen fire in his tiny, squalid one-bedroom apartment in Philadelphia.

During labor, gastric stasis, associated with the use of opioid analgesics, may increase the mother 's risk of inhalation pneumonia.

Both casualties were taken to hospital suffering from smoke inhalation.

The bronchodilation following inhalation of ipratropium bromide is primarily local and site specific to the lung and not systemic in nature.

Examples of risk phrases include " may cause cancer " or " toxic by inhalation ".

The three terrified residents were taken by paramedics to Arrowe Park hospital where the two men were treated for smoke inhalation.

In addition, unsealed radioactive material might enter the body by skin absorption, inhalation or ingestion.

By knowing how to prevent summer fires and how to act quickly if one should break out, you reduce the chance of injuries from burns and smoke inhalation.

Provocation testing involves direct exposure to a likely allergen, either through inhalation or ingestion.

Oral food challenges with foods are more tedious than inhalation testing, since full passage through the digestive system may take a day or more.

Each inhalation is followed by measuring the exhalation capacity with a measuring tool called a spirometer.

Prior to inhalation testing, children with asthma who can tolerate it may be asked to stop asthma medications.

Inhalation tests may cause delayed asthma attacks, even if the antigen administered in the test initially produces no response.

Children should be observed closely for signs of allergic reactions after allergy testing using skin tests, inhalation tests, or provocation tests.

Inhalation tests may provoke an asthma attack.

In an inhalation test, the exhalation capacity should remain unchanged.

Following allergen inhalation, reduction in exhalation capacity of more than 20 percent, and for at least 10 to 20 minutes, indicates a positive reaction to the allergen and the sensitivity of the individual being tested.

Choking is a condition caused by inhalation of a foreign object that partially or fully blocks the airway.

In infants, choking usually results from inhalation of small objects (coins, small toys, deflated balloons, buttons) that they place in their mouths.

The name comes from a typical cough which starts with a deep inhalation, followed by a series of quick, short coughs that continues until the air is expelled from the lungs, and ends with a long shrill, whooping inhalation.

Because air passes obstructions more easily during inhalation than during exhalation, over time, air becomes trapped in the smallest chambers of the lungs, the alveoli.

The inhalation form of the drug, Intal, is used for asthma.

In patients who require ongoing use of steroids, alternate day dosing or inhalation of some of the newer corticosteroids may minimize the adverse effects of this class of drugs.

In infants, choking usually results from inhalation of small objects (e.g., coins, small toys, deflated balloons, buttons) that they place in their mouth.

Illegal street heroin can be taken by inhalation as well as by injection.

Treatment of nitrite or nitrate toxicity involves inhalation of 100 percent oxygen for several hours.

A breath holding spell is an involuntary reflex because it follows exhalation rather than inhalation.

Although acetylcysteine is by far the more reliable of the two, it must be administered with special inhalation equipment or instilled directly into the trachea.

A device measures the changes in air pressure in the box during inhalation and exhalation.

It is administered either by injection or by inhalation.

A direct inhalation of essential oils (two drops of oil to two cups of water) using thyme, rosemary, and lavender can help open the sinuses and kill bacteria that cause infection.

In newborns, the most common cause of cardiopulmonary arrest is respiratory failure caused by sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), airway obstruction (usually from inhalation of a foreign body), sepsis, neurologic disease, or drowning.

Adduction of the vocal cords happens most commonly during inhalation, although it can also happen during exhalation.

Other factors influence the level of treatment needed, including associated injuries such as bone fractures and smoke inhalation, presence of a chronic disease, or a history of abuse.

He or she may also check for smoke inhalation, carbon monoxide poisoning, cyanide poisoning, other event-related trauma, or, if suspected, evidence of child abuse.

Aspiration pneumonia, an infection of the respiratory system caused by inhalation of the contents of the digestive tract, may also develop.

He or she also will look for maximum chest expansion during inhalation.

When steroids are taken by inhalation for a long period, asthma attacks become less frequent as the airways become less sensitive to allergens.

Smoke inhalation is breathing in the harmful gases, vapors, and particulate matter contained in smoke.

Smoke inhalation typically occurs in victims or firefighters caught in structural fires.

People who are trapped in fires may suffer from smoke inhalation independent of receiving skin burns; however, the incidence of smoke inhalation increases with the percentage of total body surface area burned.

Ammonia should be given by inhalation, and artificial respiration must never be forgotten, as by it the paralysed breathing may be compensated for and the poison excreted.

This will help avoid inhalation of high levels of fungi.

George was a stone mason and died at the age of 42 from dust inhalation.

Initial symptoms of ricin poisoning by inhalation may occur within 8 hours of exposure.

Children under age 11 and adults over age 70 are most vulnerable to the effects of smoke inhalation.

In institutions where it is available, hyperbaric oxygen therapy may be used to treat smoke inhalation, resulting in severe carbon monoxide or cyanide poisoning.

Acupuncture and homeopathic treatment can provide support to the whole person who has suffered a traumatic injury such as smoke inhalation.

Although the outcome depends of the severity of the smoke inhalation and the severity of any accompanying burns or other injuries, with prompt medical treatment, the prognosis for recovery is good.

Smoke inhalation is best avoided by preventing structural fires.

Inhalation of the virus from the air, as might occur in a highly populated bat cave, is also thought to occur.

This Intelligence alone would have produced the orderly arrangement which we observe in Nature, and is the basis of human thought by the physical process of inhalation.

Person to person spread of inhalation anthrax does not occur.

The Committee agreed that the negative rat inhalation carcinogenicity bioassay provided additional reassurance with regard to possible site of contact mutagenicity.

As with other inhalation therapy paradoxical bronchospasm may occur with an immediate increase in wheezing after dosing.

The dog was diagnosed with smoke inhalation induced pneumonia and has two damaged corneas.

The elderly female resident suffered smoke inhalation in the incident which destroyed her home.

A mask may also be worn to prevent inhalation of airborne particles.

However, deep inhalation is still required to produce the rapid pulse of nicotine to the brain associated with absorption in the lung alveoli.

Use the same dilution in a bowl of steaming hot water for a steam inhalation.

Work is ongoing within OECD with respect to inhalation toxicology study guidelines.

Since inhalation is considered yin and exhalation yang, both should operate together in a fluid circular motion.

With potassium iodide, glycerin and water, it forms the preparation spirone, which has been used as a spray inhalation in paroxysmal sneezing and asthma.

When they are given by inhalation or by the mouth their first effect is to produce marked dilatation of the small arteries, with a fall of blood-pressure and a greatly increased rapidity of the heart's action.

The collar-pores are remarkable for their constancy; this is probably owing to the fact that they have become adapted to a special function, the inhalation of water to render the collar turgid during progression.

It is by no means the most powerful poison known, for such an alkaloid as pseud-aconitine, which is lethal in dose of about 1/200 of a grain, is some hundreds of times more toxic, but prussic acid is by far the most rapid poison known, a single inhalation of it producing absolutely instantaneous death.

It is much frequented as a health and summer resort, and has a variety of lake, brine, vegetable and pine-cone baths, a hydropathic establishment, inhalation chambers, whey cure, &c. There are a great number of excursions and points of interest round Gmunden, specially worth mentioning being the Traun Fall, 10 m.

But the state itself, when reached, is at least as dangerous to life as is that produced by inhalation of ether, and it is more difficult to recover from.

The mode of administration is by an inhaler attached to an inhalation bag, which serves to break the force with which the oxygen issues from the cylinders in which it is sold in a compressed form.

Life is maintained by the inhalation of fresh atoms to replace those lost by exhalation, and when respiration, and consequently the supply of atoms, ceases, the result is death.

The pure acid thus obtained is a most dangerous substance to handle, its vapour even when highly diluted with air having an exceedingly injurious action on the respiratory organs, whilst inhalation of the pure vapour is followed by death.

Nutrition (assimilation) by the leaves includes the inhalation of air, and the interaction under the influence of light and in the presence of chlorophyll of the carbon dioxide of the air with the water received from the root, to form carbonaceous food.