"instrument for reducing a liquid to spray" (for inhalation, etc.), 1865, agent noun from verb nebulize "to reduce to a mist or spray" (1865), from Latin nebula "mist" (see nebula) + -ize. Related: Nebulization.
*nebh-
Nebraska
Nebuchadnezzar
nebula
nebular
nebulizer
nebulosity
nebulous
necessarily
necessary
necessitarian