inhalantadj.n.
/ɪnˈheɪlənt/, /ɪnˈheɪln̩t/, U.S. /ᵻnˈheɪlənt/ Zoology.
A. adj.
Inhaling; serving for inhalation; concerned with inhalation.
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1825 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 17 326 The numerous inhalent orifices of the absorbent vessels.
1872 H. A. Nicholson Man. Palæontol. 67 Very much smaller openings..termed the ‘pores’, or inhalant apertures.
1875 T. H. Huxley & H. N. Martin Course Elem. Biol. 105 These ‘inhalent’ and ‘exhalent’ currents go on, so long as the animal is alive and the valves are open.
1883 Harper's Mag. Jan. 187/2 Their orifices so arranged that the inhalent are upon the outside of the cylinder, and the exhalent upon the inner side.
1935 W. H. Twenhofel & R. R. Shrock Invertebr. Paleontol. ix. 314 In the earliest and most primitive pelecypods..the edges of the mantle are entirely free, but posteriorly they are folded in such a way as to produce an upper exhalant channel separated from a lower inhalant one.
1968 R. D. Purchon Biol. Mollusca iv. 164 S[olen] delesserti can also perform a swimming escape reaction by expulsion of a series of jets of water from the inhalant siphon.
B. n.
1. An inhalant opening or pore.
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1822 J. M. Good Study Med. IV. 376 A hundred pounds of fluid have in this manner been absorbed by the inhalents of the skin.
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2. An apparatus used for inhaling; a medicinal preparation for inhalation. In recent dictionaries.
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