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(medical) blowing air or medicated powder into the lungs (or into some other body cavity)
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insufflation
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Wikipedia
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In religious and magical practice, insufflation and exsufflation are ritual acts of blowing, breathing, hissing, or puffing that signify variously expulsion or renunciation of evil or of the devil (the Evil One), or infilling or blessing with good (especially, ...
Wiktionary
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n. 1 The action of breathing or blowing into or on. 2 The result of breathing or blowing into or on. 3 The ritual breathing onto the water used for baptism
WordNet
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n. (medicine) blowing air or medicated powder into the lungs (or into some other body cavity) an act of blowing or breathing on or into something
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Insufflation \In`suf*fla"tion\, n. [L. insuffatio: cf. F. insuffation. See In- in, and Sufflation .] The act of breathing on or into anything; especially: (R. C. Ch.) The breathing upon a person in the sacrament of baptism to symbolize the inspiration of ...
Usage examples of insufflation.
Paul's first goal was to introduce the trocar of the insufflation unit to fill the patient's abdominal cavity with gas.
Had he found the true church all of a sudden in winding up to the end like a reel of cotton some fine-spun line of reasoning upon insufflation on the imposition of hands or the procession of the Holy Ghost?
Many will remember that great epidemic of croup which desolated, thirty-five years ago, the quartiers bordering on the Seine at Paris, and of which science took advantage to experiment on a large scale as to the efficacy of insufflations of alum, now so happily replaced by the tincture of iodine externally applied.