Medicinal Nebulizer

A device which employs an air blast in a chamber to vaporize a fluid. The chamber has jets and may have a baffle. The particle size of the mist produced is smaller and more diffused than the jet of spray from an atomizer. It is used in inhalation therapy for respiratory areas in the treatment of asthma where larger sprayed droplets are not satisfactory. Excludes atomizer, medicinal.