Definition of "inspiratory" [in•spir•a•to•ry]

• Of, relating to, or used for the drawing in of air. (adjective)
• Intended or used to motivate or inspire: an inspiratory speech. (adjective)

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• "LifeLab Innovations has a number of respiratory products in its development pipeline and Professor McConnell was also the creator of the POWERbreathe® inspiratory muscle trainer."
• "Portable chest X-ray, good inspiratory effort, the lungs are unremarkable with no infiltrates, effusion, or evidence of pneumothorax."
• "This is the reason why nature has brought the two nostrils together and placed them as the central of the three sense-organs, setting them side by side on a level with each other, to avail themselves of the inspiratory motion."