inhaler
part of speech
noun (an inhaler, inhalers)
meaning for a pupil
A small device you put in your mouth and press to breathe a medicine into your lungs, used mostly for asthma. tree →
sense in the lessons
In health and safety lessons, children with asthma use an inhaler, often with a spacer; a blue reliever inhaler opens the airways during an attack, and a preventer inhaler is used every day. Schools keep inhalers handy, and you should tell an adult at once if a friend has trouble breathing. Phrases: «use your inhaler», «blue inhaler», «reliever inhaler».
examples
- Jamie takes his inhaler on every school trip. tree →
- When she started wheezing, she used her blue inhaler. tree →
- Shake the inhaler and breathe in slowly. tree →
- Our teacher keeps spare inhalers in the office. tree →
- A spacer helps the medicine from the inhaler reach the lungs. tree →
- He uses a brown inhaler every morning to prevent attacks. tree →
- If an inhaler doesn't help, call for help straight away. tree →
- Never use someone else's inhaler. tree →
note
Countable; with «an»: «an inhaler». Verb «inhale» (breathe in); opposite «exhale» (breathe out). An inhaler is a medicine, not a toy, and belongs only to the person it was given to.
In the corpora
- Animal allergies can trigger asthma attacks that make breathing very hard; a child with asthma uses his inhaler and tells an adult.
- Asthma narrows the tubes that carry air into the lungs, so breathing is hard and wheezy; a reliever inhaler opens them again.
- In an asthma attack, sit the person up, help them use their reliever inhaler and fetch an adult.
- The blue reliever inhaler relaxes the airway muscles within minutes, like loosening a tight belt round the airways.
- The brown preventer inhaler calms the swelling slowly, so it only works if taken every day, even when you feel fine.
Trees and pragmatics
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