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aerosol (medicine)


aerosol
<pharmacology> A suspension or dispersion of fine particles of a solid or liquid in a gas which can be atomised into a fine mist for inhalation therapy.

Often colloids with a gaseous dispersing phase and either liquid (fog) or solid (smoke) dispersed phase; used in fumigation or in inhalation therapy; may contain propellent agents.


xanthorrhoea (iou)



xanthorrhoea noun. Also *xanthorrhea. E19.
[from mod. Latin (see below), formed as XANTHO- + -RRHOEA, from the yellow gum exuded at the base of the old leaves.]
Any of various palmlike Australian woody plants constituting the genus Xanthorrhoea (family Xanthorrhoeaceae), popularly called blackboy, grass-tree.