Aerian

Quick meaning: Aerian is an adjective meaning (rare) Of or belonging to the atmosphere or to the air; aerial.

Meaning

(rare) Of or belonging to the atmosphere or to the air; aerial.

Example Sentences

Wounds which, whatever their seat, are complicated with aerian or bacterial emphysema, and the gases from which are infiltrated to the scrotum.

Figure to yourself an extensive suite of rooms, long galleries and passages, the ceilings, or rather the beams, in such aërian perspective, as nearly to evade the sight; the walls literally bare and green, from damp; the pavement more rugged than Berkeley-Square, and I believe has not been cleaned for many years.

"We provoke cough," says Schwilgué, "to favour the expulsion of foreign bodies introduced from without into the aërian tube, and especially of liquids; we have recourse to it to favour the expectoration of mucus, of membraniform concretions, and of pus, which have accumulated in the aërian passages, whenever the local irritation is sufficiently great."

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include aerial, aeriform, airy, aerational, aerostatic, aerious.

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