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
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
Oxygen insufflation will aid in the restoration of respiration, and a pearl of amyl nitrite should be crushed in gauze and blown in with the oxygen.
From Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery by Chevalier Jackson
Bronchoscopic oxygen insufflation is a life-saving measure equalled by no other method known to the science of medicine, in all cases of asphyxia, or apnea, present or impending.
From Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery by Chevalier Jackson
