Meaning of insufflate | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To breathe or blow into or on.
   transitive
2. To treat by blowing a gas, vapor, or powder into a body cavity.
   transitive
3. To inhale (a powder etc.).
   transitive
4. To exhale upon baptismal water, or the one being baptised, as a ritual act.
   transitive

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Examples

“2001: Cocaine is usually taken by insufflating the white powdered cocaine sulphate into the nose, which leads to rapid absorption of the drug into the bloodstream. — Leslie Iversen, Drugs: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford 2001, p. 98)”

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