Crossword clues for insufflation
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 a new spiritual life.
(Med.) The act of blowing (a gas, powder, or vapor) into any cavity of the body.
Wiktionary
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
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
Wikipedia
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, in religious use, with the Spirit or grace of God).
In historical Christian practice, such blowing appears most prominently in the liturgy, and is connected almost exclusively with baptism and other ceremonies of Christian initiation, achieving its greatest popularity during periods in which such ceremonies were given a prophylactic or exorcistic significance, and were viewed as essential to the defeat of the devil or to the removal of the taint of original sin.
Ritual blowing occurs in the liturgies of catechumenate and baptism from a very early period and survives into the modern Roman Catholic, Greek Orthodox, Maronite, and Coptic rites. Catholic liturgy post- Vatican II (the so-called novus ordo 1969) has largely done away with insufflation, except in a special rite for the consecration of chrism on Maundy Thursday. Protestant liturgies typically abandoned it very early on. This practice is not mixed in other religions because it is a unique practice and regarded as sacred among the believers of the holy bible, whether it be Jew, Christian (various patterns, but similar in belief of Jesus as the son of God YHWH), Orthodox, or Catholic, which all maintain its unity to various degrees but all proceed from the belief in God as the creator of all, (for more information refer to "the I am" or "the great I am" or YHWH). The Tridentine Catholic liturgy retained both an insufflation of the baptismal water and (like the present-day Orthodox and Maronite rites) an exsufflation of the candidate for baptism, right up to the 1960s:
[THE INSUFFLATION] He breathes thrice upon the waters in the form of a cross, saying: Do You with Your mouth bless these pure waters: that besides their natural virtue of cleansing the body, they may also be effectual for purifying the soul.
THE EXSUFFLATION. The priest breathes three times on the child in the form of a cross, saying: Go out of him...you unclean spirit and give place to the Holy Spirit, the Paraclete.
Insufflation ( for "to blow on" or "to blow into") is the act of blowing something (such as a gas, powder, or vapor) into a body cavity. Insufflation has many medical uses, most notably as a route of administration for various drugs.
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.