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Webster 1913 Edition


Insufflation

Inˊsuf-fla′tion

,
Noun.
[L.
insuffatio
: cf. F.
insuffation
. See
In-
in, and
Sufflation
.]
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.
[L. in and sufflo, to blow.]
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)

  1. 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.
  2. The result of breathing or blowing into or on.
  3. The ritual breathing onto the water used for baptism

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