inhalation
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Short-term exposure to acrolein by inhalation can cause nose and throat irritation and a decreased breathing rate.
From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 2026
During the outbreak, people appeared to be infected mostly "through inhalation of droplets", it added.
From Barron's • May 7, 2026
Hantavirus is a rare but deadly disease that attacks the lungs and is typically contracted by humans through inhalation of particles contaminated with the urine, feces or saliva of a wild rodent.
From Los Angeles Times • May 7, 2026
Mice were exposed to aerosolized chlorpyrifos for 11 weeks through inhalation methods designed to mimic how people typically encounter the chemical.
From Science Daily • Mar. 16, 2026
The Brahmins and their holy books knew everything, everything; they had gone into everything—the creation of the world, the origin of speech, food, inhalation, exhalation, the arrangement of the senses, the acts of the gods.
From "Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse
Vocabulary lists containing inhalation
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