A small portable device that dispenses medicine in the form of a mist or powder that you breathe in, commonly used by asthma patients.
From 'inhale' (from Latin 'in-' meaning 'in' plus 'halare' meaning 'to breathe'), with the suffix '-er' added to mean 'a device that does the action,' created in the 1800s.
The modern portable inhaler is only about 60 years old—before that, asthma patients had to use large machines at home, making the invention of the metered-dose inhaler revolutionary for people with breathing problems.
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