insufflation
IPA: ɪnsˈʌfɫˈeɪʃʌn
noun
- The action of breathing or blowing into or on.
- The result of breathing or blowing into or on.
- The ritual breathing onto the water used for baptism
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Examples of "insufflation" in Sentences
- The insufflation tube appears to have been left out, and there are no drones to be seen.
- Where the Gloss is, If those plagues come by the insufflation of the devil, which do not defile the man.
- Where the Gloss again hath it; "Those plagues which are inflicted by the insufflation of the devil, not by the hands of men."
- A moment later there was a soft, almost inaudible insufflation; the door stirred and moved outward perhaps six inches, then stopped.
- And still Ehomba continued his unnatural insufflation, until the last of the blackness had vanished, drawn deep down within himself.
- The pipes are of three kinds: (1) a simple valved insufflation tube or "blow-pipe," by means of which the performer fills the bag reservoir; (2) the "chaunter"
- During the baptismal service the Satanic hosts, as originators of sin, vice, and maladies, were expelled by insufflation of the officiating clergyman, the sign of the cross, and the invocation of the Triune Deity.
- In addition to this capital defect, it is regrettable that it is necessary to shake the flask that contains the solution after every insufflation of air, and also that the play of the valves soon becomes imperfect.
- The first applications that he attempted related to the use of electricity in surgery, a wonderfully fecund branch, but one whose importance was scarcely suspected, notwithstanding the results already obtained through the application of the insufflation pile to galvano-cautery.
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