Meaning of insufflation | Babel Free

Definitions

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

Equivalents

Examples

“From the oracle the sound did come—or at any rate the sense did, a sense all accordant with the insufflation she had just seen working.”

“He was the inventor of the procedure for flexible sigmoidoscopy using insufflation (inflating the sigmoid colon with air) that still is practiced today.”

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