nasal spray

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noun

a liquid medication that can be atomized and inhaled into or through the nose.

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He would shake a chilled Coke, and then spray the soda into a cold glass of milk.
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Called by the hoity toity term of nasal insufflation, this method was used by some in Asia till a few hundred years ago.
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Neither Mr. Gelb nor the unions claimed responsibility for the spray painted vulgarities, and the case remains unsolved.
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Among them were some horrifying images of severe damage to nasal tissue caused by a child lodging a button battery in her nose.
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Although some groups, through the thick fog of tear gas, pepper spray and smoke that hung over the city, still lingered.
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While you were admiring the long roll of the wave, a sudden spray would be dashed over you, and make you catch your breath!
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When patients are very nervous, it is well to spray the throat with cocain solution.
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Gunn possessed a purple complexion which attained to full vigor of coloring in the nasal region.
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Here, being suddenly drenched by spray from one of the engines, Sam and Tommy made for the shelter of a chimney-stack.
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For more than another hour that sweet nasal monotonous voice trilled on.
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