A device with a canister holding a medicine in a dry powder form, ready to be sucked/sprayed out as aerosols, with the purpose to be inhaled by a patient into the lungs. The device is commonly used for the treatment of asthma and other type of respiratory diseases
[ 'drI ] (adjective.) before 12th century. Middle English, from Old English dryge; akin to Old High German truckan dry, Old English drEahnian to drain.