insufflation
noun/ˌɪnsəˈfleɪʃən/US
Etymology
From insufflate + -ion.
- borrowed from īnsufflātus
Definitions
The action of breathing or blowing into or on.
- 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.
The result of breathing or blowing into or on.
The ritual breathing onto the water used for baptism.
The neighborhood
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for insufflation. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA