1 a large empty tube that attaches to an inhaler (= a small device for breathing in medicines) and helps the medicine go straight to your lungs : --
For some, an asthma spacer can be used in conjunction with their prescribed inhaler.
Breathe in and out from the spacer for four breaths in a row.
Medication is sprayed into the spacer and the child breathes it into his or her lungs in five or six breaths.
Equipment used to treat childhood asthma includes inhaler spacers, nebulizers and peak flow meters.
Press the inhaler so that the medication sprays into the spacer.
The mechanic who removed the clips reported that no spacers had been installed.
They were playing a game with the plastic spacers used in pizza delivery boxes.
Discs are flexible spacers between the bony vertebrae of the spine.