insufflate
verb (used with object)
to blow or breathe (something) in.
insufflation
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a word derived from
insufflate.
Example Sentences
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“The young people marry, the old remember their youth. Drone and melody of village cycle: a little vigour is piped into the heart, an insufflation of warm memory.”
From Washington Post ● Mar. 10, 2020
They’re dead — they haven’t got that insufflation, the breath of life.
From New York Times ● Jun. 22, 2012
Sometimes artificial otoliths are produced by the insufflation of various powders which become agglutinated, and are veritable foreign bodies.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle
By the air passages.—Medicines are administered to the lungs and upper air passages by insufflation, inhalation, injection, and nasal douche.
From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Charles B. Michener
Prompt introduction of a bronchoscope, with oxygen and amyl nitrite insufflation and artificial respiration, may be necessary to save life.
From Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery by Chevalier Jackson
