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VAPOROLE

\vˈe͡ɪpɔːɹˌə͡ʊl], \vˈe‍ɪpɔːɹˌə‍ʊl], \v_ˈeɪ_p_ɔː_ɹ_ˌəʊ_l]\

Definitions of VAPOROLE

1908 - Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language
1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary

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v[=a]'p[=o]-r[=o]l, n. a thin glass capsule, containing a volatile drug wrapped in cotton-wool and enclosed in a silk bag, to be crushed in the fingers so as to permit inhalation.

1908 - Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language
By Thomas Davidson

A glass capsule containing a single dose of a volatile drug.

1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland

Of Burroughs, Wellcome and Co., a friable glass capsule containing a drug to be employed for inhalation or fumigation, ensheathed in concentric layers of absorbent cotton, and the whole inclosed in a silken sack.

1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
By Smith Ely Jelliffe

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