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inhalative

inhalative adjective: pertaining to or administered by inhalation.

Adjective

inhalative (not comparable)

  1. Pertaining to or administered by inhalation
    • What little research has been done on humans in this respect does give some indication that positive and negative affective expressions are associated with differences in the inhalative and exhalative components of respiration.1976, Mario von Cranach, Methods of inference from animal to human behaviour, page 186
    • Does inhalation needs to get in touch with its exhalative side and exhalation with its inhalative side?2012, Christopher Alan Anderson, The (Two) Telepathic Forces of the Universe

Words formed from inhalative

Questions about inhalative

What does inhalative mean?
Inhalative means pertaining to or administered by inhalation.
What part of speech is inhalative?
Inhalative is an adjective.

Words near inhalative in the dictionary

  1. inhalant
  2. inhalants
  3. inhalation
  4. inhalational
  5. inhalations
  6. inhalative
  7. inhalatively
  8. inhalator
  9. inhalators
  10. inhalatory
  11. inhale

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