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Webster 1913 Edition
Insufflation
Inˊsuf-fla′tion
,Noun.
The act of breathing on or into anything
; especially: (a)
(R. C. Ch.)
The breathing upon a person in the sacrament of baptism to symbolize the inspiration of a new spiritual life.
(b)
(Med.)
The act of blowing (a gas, powder, or vapor) into any cavity of the body.
Webster 1828 Edition
Insufflation
INSUFFLA'TION
,Noun.
1.
The act of breathing on.2.
The act of blowing a substance into a cavity of the body.Definition 2024
insufflation
insufflation
English
Noun
insufflation (countable and uncountable, plural insufflations)
- The action of breathing or blowing into or on.
- 2004, Daniel B. Silver, Refuge in ****: How Berlin's Jewish Hospital Outlasted the Nazis, page 83
- He was the inventor of the procedure for flexible sigmoidoscopy using insufflation (inflating the sigmoid colon with air) that still is practiced today.
- 2004, Daniel B. Silver, Refuge in ****: How Berlin's Jewish Hospital Outlasted the Nazis, page 83
- The result of breathing or blowing into or on.
- The ritual breathing onto the water used for baptism
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