Meaning & use
Nebulized
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Converted into a fine spray or mist, especially for medical inhalation.
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The nebulized medication helped open her airways within minutes.
Nurses administered a nebulized bronchodilator to the wheezing child.
A note on using this word
From 'nebula,' Latin for mist or cloud, reflecting how a nebulizer turns liquid medicine into an inhalable cloud of droplets.
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Another way to use it
2. verb
Reduced to a fine spray by means of a nebulizer.
The technician nebulized the saline solution for the patient's treatment.
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