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Insufflation vs Inhaler - What's the difference?

insufflation | inhaler |

As nouns the difference between insufflation and inhaler

is that insufflation is the action of breathing or blowing into or on while inhaler is one who inhales.

insufflation

English

Noun

(-)
  • The action of breathing or blowing into or on.
  • *2004 , Daniel B. Silver, Refuge in Hell: How Berlin's Jewish Hospital Outlasted the Nazis , page 83
  • *:He was the inventor of the procedure for flexible sigmoidoscopy using insufflation (inflating the sigmoid colon with air) that still is practiced today.
  • The result of breathing or blowing into or on.
  • The ritual breathing onto the water used for baptism

    • inhaler

    English

    (wikipedia inhaler)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who inhales.
  • * 1963 , Consumers Union of United States, Consumer reports (volume 28, page 277)
    • 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.
  • (medicine) 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.

    • Derived terms

    * metered-dose inhaler * dry powder inhaler

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